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It’s time to vote #YesOnProp50, California! Go make your plan to vote early!

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

It is long past time to go back to paper ballots.

Those were my feelings when I was there a few years ago. Breathtaking. Humbling. Healing.

I love it - a huffle of pufferfish

Wow - that would make sense.

Opinion | The Erasure of American Working Women

Not enough people are talking about what this regime is doing to women. It isn't pretty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

The German State of Baden-Württemberg is sponsoring 14 fellowships for researchers whose work is under political pressure in the US. Total funding for the fellowships is 3.6 million EUR. Freiburg, Konstanz and Tübingen are the participating universities.
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www.myscience.de/en/news/wire...

🇲🇩 Moldova, you’ve done it again.

No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve.

You made your choice clear:

Europe. Democracy. Freedom.

Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.

The future is yours.

Early results from a gene therapy trial against Huntington's Disease have been incredible - far better than originally hoped for. This is wonderful news for all families suffering from this devastating, and until now untreatable, autosomal dominant disease.
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Spatially patterned kidney assembloids recapitulate progenitor self-assembly and enable high-fidelity in vivo disease modeling Current kidney organoids do not recapitulate the kidney’s complex spatial patterning and function, limiting their applications. The human kidney compr…

Link to original article can be found here:
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scientists make most authentic kidney replicas so far Lab-grown organoids reproduce some of a kidney’s internal structure and function

A new paper appearing in Cell Stem Cell describes organoids that can replicate some of the functions of kidneys in mice. The lead investigator of the study predicts that there could be a transplantable kidney available for animal testing within 5 years.🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Building the Opposition From Marc | The success of our democracy rests on an effective opposition movement.

Rather than a resistance, the concept of an opposition is more comprehensive and durable. It recognizes that there are no time limits to the effort. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...

So true 😕

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

Powerful article describing the recent funding cuts at NIH and NCI, and the impacts they are having on cancer research.
Gift article. 🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

Add to that the cuts in public funding at NIH and NCI and times are bleak, indeed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Supreme Court Must Explain Why It Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor The Court has repeatedly halted lower court orders and allowed administration policies to go forward via its “shadow docket” without any explanation.

After judges from across the political spectrum found that Trump administration policies were likely illegal or unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has frequently reinstated those policies without any explanation. bit.ly/4mzvX0p

@hcrichardson.bsky.social has issued the assignment

They are attacking biomedical research in general.

bsky.app/profile/mari...

"Use this happily" - I love the inscription,😊

"Varmus seemed as puzzled as anyone by the development. “We are great in science,” he said. “Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?”

"America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research — and 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research — may very well be coming to a close, and for no apparent reason."

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Beautiful!

The real issue isn’t left vs right.

It’s not white vs black.

It’s not citizen vs immigrant.

It’s not gay vs straight.

The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

I was just thinking the same thing!