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Coleen Murphy

@ctmurphy1.bsky.social

Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic

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Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

12.10.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11178    πŸ” 3539    πŸ’¬ 358    πŸ“Œ 193

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

11.10.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6627    πŸ” 1772    πŸ’¬ 179    πŸ“Œ 73

My first thought was β€œwow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

11.10.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8103    πŸ” 2693    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 203

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

11.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1117    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 10

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

11.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11282    πŸ” 3798    πŸ’¬ 413    πŸ“Œ 141
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This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

11.10.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 15180    πŸ” 3665    πŸ’¬ 243    πŸ“Œ 108

But the Port of Portland turned down the request to play it at Portland International Airport, said it's a Hatch Act violation and violates Oregon state law.

Thank you #PortofPortland !

www.koin.com/news/portlan...

11.10.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Airports should play public-service announcements for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals instead

11.10.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1778    πŸ” 277    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 11

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

11.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1355    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 14
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THE VOTE COUNTERS HAVE CHANGED HANDS-AND AMERICA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION When a firm that counts votes gets sold behind closed doors, the price isn’t what matters. What’s being traded is confidence...and that’s the one currency a republic can’t print more of.

THE VOTE COUNTERS HAVE CHANGED HANDS-AND AMERICA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION
www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-vote-c...

11.10.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 266    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 21
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

11.10.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3260    πŸ” 1326    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 65

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

11.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2713    πŸ” 597    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 11

So I guess β€œDemocrat programs” are the ones that keep everyone (not just Dems) alive, safe, healthy, free and enjoying the right to pursue happiness. Do I have that right?

11.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

10.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12029    πŸ” 6151    πŸ’¬ 1027    πŸ“Œ 481
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After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

11.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3143    πŸ” 1355    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 50
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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

11.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1632    πŸ” 322    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 12
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#GetOutTheVought‼️ Trump and Vought are decimating the federal workforce. This isn't just a shutdown stunt, this is in line with Project 2025's goal of cutting our government by 1 million workers.

STAND WITH SCIENCE!
✊Rally to TAKE BACK SCIENCE 10/17 @ 3pm ET
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC

11.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 231    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.10.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

11.10.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 13823    πŸ” 6150    πŸ’¬ 519    πŸ“Œ 397
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Tom Kean Jr, you must really love pedophiles & hate Americans if you are willing to accept the House doing nothing, nothing, since July. All to protect a pedophile & ensure that you strip healthcare from millions of Americans. Come out of hiding, coward. Answer to your constituents. #ShameOnKean

10.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

11.10.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2203    πŸ” 791    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 14

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

11.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 514    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5

Exactly! Besides being creepy (humans) and just weird, the mistaken "pictures" of C. elegans (like with legs and antennae) in PR posts about worm publications set my teeth on edge

10.10.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho.

While Americans can’t afford groceries.

10.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4427    πŸ” 1594    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 95
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Nothing quite like a free plug. Check out Nokings.org for a location near you. Thanks MikeπŸ‘πŸ½

10.10.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

10.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 731    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

10.10.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators

Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

09.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1299    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 4

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