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@jongj.bsky.social

Poet. Neuroscience. Rilke scholar. Father. Book Lover. Film fanatic. Teacher.

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Yes on Prop 50 Virtual Rally and Phone Bank · California Working Families Party Join the California Working Families Party for a powerful Yes on Prop 50 Virtual Rally and Phone Bank on Wednesday, October 22 from 5:30–8:00 PM PT on Zoom. This is our moment to fight back against T...

I'm attending California Working Families Party's event, “Yes on Prop 50 Virtual Rally and Phone Bank” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/ca-wfp/event...

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Keep thinking collectively and globally.

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Just to be sure we understand the true issue.

19.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you think in terms of zones of economic control, the issue is a bit more complicated...it's the Gulf of the USA, Mexico and Cuba! But I'm sure I'm now banned from press meetings for posting this,

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Cancer mRNA vaccines: clinical advances and future opportunities - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology Following their successful implementation in the COVID-19 pandemic, the technology behind mRNA vaccines is now being applied to cancer. In this Review, the authors described the several decades of dev...

In the medical world, mRNA vaccines are the front line in what will likely be a revolutionary treatment for many kinds of cancer. Will this research be stopped now by the new government? #mRNA #Vaccines #Cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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As we work now for that future, we should also be clear about we are going to do when we get there.

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The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...

You can sign up for Rebecca Solnit's blog "Meditations In An Emergency" for free! And it's really very good. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...

08.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In the meantime, we must stand for what is right. This time, too, will pass.

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In the FOX News and MAGA world, there is NO reporting about the data heist Musk just pulled off at the Treasury Department. This is the largest data heist in the history of our country. We need to play our part in getting this news out to that world.

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What we need now is organized community. We all need to be talking with each other. Now is not the time to stay quiet and withdraw.

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Canada drops bad news for RED STATES over Trump’s trade war
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Canada drops bad news for RED STATES over Trump’s trade war

A great analysis! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6z...

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The so-called "War on Drugs" has always been a war against the American people. It always comes down to that.

31.01.2025 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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As a physician, I'm pretty alarmed, too! If you want another pandemic and/or some other medical disaster, this is a great plan...

31.01.2025 17:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think this comes with maturity, but it's also a big part of common sense nowadays.

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Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows The majority of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines on social media trace back to just a handful of influential figures. So why don't the companies just shut them down?

So, fact-checking researchers finally tell us this part of the puzzle. We keep hearing about foreign disinformation propaganda, but we never hear exactly what disinformation. We need to ask more questions. www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9...

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Happy New Year, Everybody! It's the Year of the Snake...a year of transformation and shedding bad energy.

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My take on time is that it's not time that moves. We are always in "the eternal now"--always have been, and always will be. So, it's *we* who move through time. You can make choices about how you do that.

28.01.2025 17:36 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rainer Maria Rilke talks about cultivating one's Solitude. And loving it. Knowing how to do this is essential for artists and writers of all kinds.

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As I've said before, I think they're waiting for us to warm the earth up again and bring them back using their DNA.

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The binary view of gender and sex is a high school-level sex education understanding of how it works. It is not how nature really works.

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‘Who voted for this?’: Trump admin obstructs cancer research funding
YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Who voted for this?’: Trump admin obstructs cancer research funding

‘Who voted for this?’

@chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Trump administration obstructing cancer research funding.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3N...

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I *highly* recommend this book by Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa. She understands the playbook used by the Republicans (and many other dictators) and how social media not only allowed it to happen but largely *contributed* to it. It's also about what we can do. Good book. #Books #Booksky

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Garth Hudson, Last Surviving Member Of The Band, Dies At 87 A virtuoso keyboardist and master of multiple instruments, Hudson and The Band backed Bob Dylan during his controversial foray into rock and roll.

I'm sorry to say Garth Hudson has died. Alas!
www.huffpost.com/entry/garth-...

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