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@hnrichardson.bsky.social

Professor/Scientist (she/her) | glia and greyhound enthusiast | own opinions | no DMs

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Latest posts by hnrichardson.bsky.social on Bluesky

“Some of the documents were so restricted that top Justice Department security officials reacted with surprise to the code names: They had never heard of them before.”
[Doxxed by sycophants]
“FBI officials surmised that Trump’s team had leaked their names, endangering the agents and their families.”

04.11.2025 02:18 — 👍 113    🔁 41    💬 8    📌 2
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Israel rocked by scandal as top military lawyer is thrown into jail A political scandal has erupted over allegations of severe abuses of Palestinians. A military official, who had leaked a video, disappeared briefly on Sunday. She was found later and is now being held in prison.

A political scandal has erupted over allegations of severe abuses of Palestinians. A military official, who had leaked a video, disappeared briefly on Sunday. She was found later and is now being held in prison. n.pr/4onizwY

04.11.2025 06:35 — 👍 688    🔁 274    💬 44    📌 23

bsky.app/profile/atru...

04.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Mackenzie Scott continues building up American society, when so many billionaires are content to rip it down.

04.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 675    🔁 136    💬 14    📌 8
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More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.

NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Only 2 judges have sided with ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

31.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 2476    🔁 906    💬 41    📌 31

I can't remember a Democratic politician in my lifetime moving people quite like *this*

04.11.2025 00:02 — 👍 812    🔁 108    💬 15    📌 4

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

31.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 10097    🔁 3923    💬 137    📌 112

HOUSTON, PLEASE GO AND VOTE FOR MY PERSONALLY ENDORSED CANDIDATE IN TX-18 ISAIAH MARTIN. HE IS BY FAR THE MOST QUALIFIED, AND WILL EXPOSE THIS CROOKED ORANGE MAN IN DC! HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER - JRM

01.11.2025 00:16 — 👍 387    🔁 100    💬 10    📌 2

More of this, please!

01.11.2025 04:05 — 👍 523    🔁 108    💬 9    📌 2

My spouse just asked if I wanted to see a *40th anniversary* showing of Back to the Future. If I have to live with this, so do you all.

01.11.2025 04:11 — 👍 62    🔁 5    💬 8    📌 0
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The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

01.11.2025 03:36 — 👍 17848    🔁 6765    💬 1512    📌 604
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wait but Speaker Johnson said there was no contingency fund? 🤷🏼

31.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 9960    🔁 2864    💬 448    📌 137
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Health institutions need to empower online creators, or risk getting left behind A quick breakdown of the best article I've read all year

Old dogs, New tricks?

Communicating in the new media environment feels kind of overwhelming for this Elder Millennial academic. But better to face how times have changed

@kmpanthagani.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/youcankn...

24.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Election interference:

24.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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🔥 CHARLAMAGNE: “He said he’d bring down inflation. His signature legislation was Medicaid cuts — 15 million lose health care, kids lose food assistance… When Trump said it was going to be a Golden Age, he wasn’t talking about YOU. He was talking about the rich.”

24.10.2025 03:09 — 👍 1934    🔁 615    💬 58    📌 28
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Federal Court Tosses Another GOP Lawsuit Against California’s Redistricting Plan Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

23.10.2025 22:33 — 👍 20492    🔁 5130    💬 709    📌 292

The Supreme Court has set the December calendar. The big campaign finance case, NRSC v. FEC, will be heard on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

I will be arguing for the Democratic Party Intervenors in defense of the law and against the GOP petition.

17.10.2025 20:10 — 👍 9581    🔁 2089    💬 181    📌 47

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

17.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 34988    🔁 10866    💬 1150    📌 411
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So who is going to jail for kidnapping.....🤔🤔

18.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 102    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 0
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All packed up and ready to go to #NoKings

Just grabbing a cup of coffee before this glorious day with friends & neighbors in America's heartland!

LFG! 🇺🇸
❌👑

18.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 461    🔁 114    💬 12    📌 1
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M.I.T.
Brown.
Penn.
USC.

Now UVA — “the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of White House demands.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

18.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 6498    🔁 1725    💬 194    📌 109
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Texas Gerrymander Was Drawn ‘Focusing on Race,’ Expert Tells Court Read more here.

🚨NEW FROM TEXAS REDISTRICTING HEARING🚨

“They achieved those partisan objectives by focusing on race,” Matt Barreto, a political science professor with the UCLA Voting Rights Project, told the court Saturday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

05.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 3668    🔁 1354    💬 47    📌 28

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

05.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 32794    🔁 7792    💬 956    📌 256

Digital sovereignty must be a key focus for all free societies in the next decade if democracy is going to survive this moment.

02.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 643    🔁 113    💬 5    📌 7

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

03.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 976    🔁 56    💬 502    📌 340
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Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

05.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 3814    🔁 675    💬 56    📌 160

Portland never stops being Portland.

05.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 6407    🔁 1477    💬 169    📌 105
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‘Breathtaking Abuse of Power’: Newsom Says Trump Is Sending California National Guard Troops to Portland Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Sunday his state will sue after President Donald Trump sent 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, according to Newsom. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

05.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 4138    🔁 1298    💬 123    📌 43
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More messaging like this please

05.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 20690    🔁 8121    💬 560    📌 302
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The Washington Post is awful, just awful.

Support independent pro-democracy media by subscribing to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

05.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 7641    🔁 1970    💬 415    📌 96

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