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Renée Paternoster

@rpaternoster.bsky.social

Retired medical writer for pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry. Graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Extension School. Fond of Nature, pets, our nearly 250-year-old democracy, and good people with integrity, empathy, and conscience.

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A black and white cat staring off into the distance from the top of a shelf.

A black and white cat staring off into the distance from the top of a shelf.

Is there really anyone stronger than me...?

28.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 11575    🔁 1050    💬 229    📌 33
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So how do we get him out of office before he completely destroys our lives and our country?

03.04.2025 03:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"I am very concerned that if these cuts are not rescinded, these will have an effect for decades." Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, is losing confidence that the damage Donald Trump is doing to the United States is fixable.

03.04.2025 02:17 — 👍 882    🔁 385    💬 53    📌 32

Trump slapped a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands

Zero people live there

But he still exempted Russia and North Korea from the tariffs

03.04.2025 02:05 — 👍 1703    🔁 463    💬 77    📌 49

He absolutely doesn't care about our country, as he's doing everything that he can to destroy it.

02.04.2025 06:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Amen to Delaware AG Kathy Jennings’ open letter to BigLaw 100:

29.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 2271    🔁 639    💬 62    📌 27
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Judge orders agencies to keep Signal chat messages A federal judge today ordered Trump administration agencies involved in a group chat on an attack on Yemen to “preserve all Signal communications between March

BREAKING: Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal group chat messages about military strikes www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

27.03.2025 21:30 — 👍 438    🔁 97    💬 36    📌 6

Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)

27.03.2025 22:01 — 👍 5611    🔁 1865    💬 111    📌 129
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Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat.

“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

27.03.2025 17:42 — 👍 18239    🔁 5612    💬 609    📌 398

I wouldn't be surprised. After all, everything he does is for Putin.

28.03.2025 06:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Patel has a paranoid facial expression. I wonder why...

26.03.2025 02:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The idea of filing inevitably doomed articles of impeachment against Chief Judge Boasberg of DC is worse than absurd. It’s a way of saying you don’t respect the rule of law, don’t believe in checks and balances, and don’t understand — or have utter contempt for — the United States Constitution.

18.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 2357    🔁 569    💬 140    📌 28
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The members of the Jan 6 Committee are all proud of our work.

Your threats will not intimidate us.

Or silence us.

17.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 50773    🔁 9208    💬 2428    📌 531

This is really alarming. Why aren't the sane people in our government stopping this widespread destruction of our country??!

17.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...

"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO...

"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...

"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

17.03.2025 17:38 — 👍 16092    🔁 6624    💬 1087    📌 588

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

17.03.2025 01:34 — 👍 38381    🔁 10837    💬 690    📌 334
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.

“Like many autocrats before him, Donald Trump has launched what could be a devastating attack on universities.” His fig leaf is fighting antisemitism. Color me dubious in the extreme.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

16.03.2025 00:55 — 👍 1927    🔁 504    💬 59    📌 13

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”

WOW. Planes in air must turn around.

A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

15.03.2025 22:52 — 👍 46991    🔁 11198    💬 1044    📌 588
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

15.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 6795    🔁 3745    💬 238    📌 238

Pete Buttigieg would be a good co-host, Jim.

12.03.2025 07:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! And please come to southeastern PA!

12.03.2025 07:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That is correct.

10.03.2025 13:07 — 👍 3171    🔁 630    💬 36    📌 7
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America Chose the Monster We all make mistakes.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

08.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 22116    🔁 5848    💬 1742    📌 453
A small planet comprised entirely of flesh and eyes lurks behind the Moon.

A small planet comprised entirely of flesh and eyes lurks behind the Moon.

November 15, 2021. A new dwarf planet has been discovered in our solar neighbourhood. It was given the provisional name Xipe Totec.
It has gone unnoticed due to its small size and complex orbit, but it recently passed close enough for this first image to be captured.

07.03.2025 23:47 — 👍 1947    🔁 252    💬 88    📌 29
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North America’s Only Total Lunar Eclipse of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How to Watch It The March 13–14 lunar eclipse will be an all-night affair you won’t want to miss

“Behold! As the Ides of March approaches, witness as Earth’s shadow engulfs the moon!

Or, put another way, a total lunar eclipse is set to occur on the night of March 13 and into the early-morning hours of March 14.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

08.03.2025 00:43 — 👍 1604    🔁 408    💬 58    📌 14

BREAKING: SpaceX's Starship EXPLODES, causing FAA to halt flights at 4 major airports

The previous Starship also exploded, in January

THIS is why FAA probed SpaceX for safety

And THIS is why Musk has been trying to kill FAA - and why he should NOT get any more govt contracts

07.03.2025 02:23 — 👍 9346    🔁 3270    💬 319    📌 158

And Musk? What he has already done and continues to do is illegal. Are there no repercussions for his destructive acts?

05.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s why I refused to watch it. What is being done to stop him and hold him accountable for dismantling our government?

05.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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