@mineralgal.bsky.social
HS science teacher, geologist, flute player, animal lover, proud aunt. Happily married.
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The DNC has sued the Trump administration for FOIA records because it wants to know whether federal agents are planning to seize ballots, voting machines or other election-system components during the 2026 midterms.
August 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The DNC has sued the Trump administration for FOIA records because it wants to know whether federal agents are planning to seize ballots, voting machines or other election-system components during the 2026 midterms.
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Mike Lindell is demanding a full hand recount after losing Minnesota’s Republican primary for governor to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth by more than 45,000 votes, or roughly 11 percentage points.
August 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Mike Lindell is demanding a full hand recount after losing Minnesota’s Republican primary for governor to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth by more than 45,000 votes, or roughly 11 percentage points.
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The dangers of RFK Jr's peptide push
Example:
"If you have a few precancerous cells lurking indolently in your prostate or breast, injecting a peptide that stimulates human growth hormone might supercharge them into a tumor."
gift link
wapo.st/4wycy3O
Example:
"If you have a few precancerous cells lurking indolently in your prostate or breast, injecting a peptide that stimulates human growth hormone might supercharge them into a tumor."
gift link
wapo.st/4wycy3O
August 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The dangers of RFK Jr's peptide push
Example:
"If you have a few precancerous cells lurking indolently in your prostate or breast, injecting a peptide that stimulates human growth hormone might supercharge them into a tumor."
gift link
wapo.st/4wycy3O
Example:
"If you have a few precancerous cells lurking indolently in your prostate or breast, injecting a peptide that stimulates human growth hormone might supercharge them into a tumor."
gift link
wapo.st/4wycy3O
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Today, during the court hearing we posted about earlier, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan pressed the Justice Department over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and whether the Trump administration has actually complied with his previous court orders.
August 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Today, during the court hearing we posted about earlier, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan pressed the Justice Department over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and whether the Trump administration has actually complied with his previous court orders.
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Greenland and Denmark are our allies. This is not how America should treat its friends. 🇬🇱🇩🇰🇺🇸
Links:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
www.chron.com/texas/articl...
Links:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
www.chron.com/texas/articl...
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Greenland and Denmark are our allies. This is not how America should treat its friends. 🇬🇱🇩🇰🇺🇸
Links:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
www.chron.com/texas/articl...
Links:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
www.chron.com/texas/articl...
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Greenland is not Trump’s property, and its natural resources do not belong to the United States or American corporations. Greenlanders should be able to decide what happens to their land without threats, intimidation, or political pressure hanging over their heads.
August 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Greenland is not Trump’s property, and its natural resources do not belong to the United States or American corporations. Greenlanders should be able to decide what happens to their land without threats, intimidation, or political pressure hanging over their heads.
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This should be getting FAR more attention. An American oil company with ties to Trump’s orbit is moving forward with plans to drill for oil in Greenland. Some drilling-related equipment has already been brought ashore even though Greenland says the necessary approvals have NOT been granted.
August 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This should be getting FAR more attention. An American oil company with ties to Trump’s orbit is moving forward with plans to drill for oil in Greenland. Some drilling-related equipment has already been brought ashore even though Greenland says the necessary approvals have NOT been granted.
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Confronted with an obvious need for renewable energy, Trump admin officials used taxpayer money to scuttle an offshore wind project.
Then they did it again. And again. And again. And this week, again.
Total price tag in wasted taxpayer money: ~$4 billion and counting
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Then they did it again. And again. And again. And this week, again.
Total price tag in wasted taxpayer money: ~$4 billion and counting
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Team Trump uses taxpayer money to scuttle yet another renewable energy project
As one key Democratic member of Congress summarized, “It is hard to imagine a more backwards use of taxpayer money.”
www.ms.now
August 7, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Confronted with an obvious need for renewable energy, Trump admin officials used taxpayer money to scuttle an offshore wind project.
Then they did it again. And again. And again. And this week, again.
Total price tag in wasted taxpayer money: ~$4 billion and counting
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Then they did it again. And again. And again. And this week, again.
Total price tag in wasted taxpayer money: ~$4 billion and counting
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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They openly admit their election crimes & are actively doing everything they can to undermine & outright steal the Midterm Elections. Any surprise he fired the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission? He knows if he loses he's headed for a 3rd Impeachment & an orange jumpsuit. 🤞 👍
August 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
They openly admit their election crimes & are actively doing everything they can to undermine & outright steal the Midterm Elections. Any surprise he fired the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission? He knows if he loses he's headed for a 3rd Impeachment & an orange jumpsuit. 🤞 👍
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It’s extremely easy to explain all of Trump’s posts calling the resistance “communist.” If you look at where things stand, their party no longer represents the “law and order” message it once claimed. Trump is so associated with Epstein, no one is sure if it’s the Epstein list or the Trump list.
August 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
It’s extremely easy to explain all of Trump’s posts calling the resistance “communist.” If you look at where things stand, their party no longer represents the “law and order” message it once claimed. Trump is so associated with Epstein, no one is sure if it’s the Epstein list or the Trump list.
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NIH has lost more than 20% of its staff. NIH has lost 1 in every 5 workers. This undermines the NIH mission. @27unihted.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
Lost critical expertise is hindering the NIH mission
Concern 5 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
open.substack.com
August 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
NIH has lost more than 20% of its staff. NIH has lost 1 in every 5 workers. This undermines the NIH mission. @27unihted.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
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Thank you for being part of this movement. Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
August 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Thank you for being part of this movement. Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
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A win! A federal court has denied xAI’s request to block Minnesota’s AI nudification law from taking effect. That means the law is set to go into effect today as scheduled.
August 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
A win! A federal court has denied xAI’s request to block Minnesota’s AI nudification law from taking effect. That means the law is set to go into effect today as scheduled.
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< dozens of people tell me "you can just tell it to turn that behavior off!" >
Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.
Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.
August 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
< dozens of people tell me "you can just tell it to turn that behavior off!" >
Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.
Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.
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It’s bad enough that it tries to flatter you by telling you you’re asking such good and insightful questions. But desperately egging you on to try to make you spend more tokens is just gross. Like if every time you ran a mass spectrometer it tried to upsell you on some more advanced analysis.
August 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
It’s bad enough that it tries to flatter you by telling you you’re asking such good and insightful questions. But desperately egging you on to try to make you spend more tokens is just gross. Like if every time you ran a mass spectrometer it tried to upsell you on some more advanced analysis.
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I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more
August 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more
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The Trump administration has begun removing signage from both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments following its decision to shrink the monuments.
August 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The Trump administration has begun removing signage from both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments following its decision to shrink the monuments.
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Trump is publicly fighting with his own hand-picked appointees after his Justice Department concluded in court that the Reflecting Pool damage was primarily caused by a “rushed and botched installation.” Maybe whoever installed the grass was also unqualified and is responsible for the “8647”.
August 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Trump is publicly fighting with his own hand-picked appointees after his Justice Department concluded in court that the Reflecting Pool damage was primarily caused by a “rushed and botched installation.” Maybe whoever installed the grass was also unqualified and is responsible for the “8647”.
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“The community here opposes this data center, and if the community here opposes this data center, then I do.” 👏
Thank you for standing with us, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
Thank you for standing with us, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
📢 "Elected officials are ignoring our voices and disregarding our well-being, from local seats all the way to the top," said Naomi Ernest, co-lead of Saline Indivisible.
Data center upheaval spills into Michigan primary elections
A candidate for a key seat in the U.S. House predicted on Tuesday that the issue of data centers "will swing elections" this fall.
www.detroitnews.com
July 31, 2026 at 12:19 PM
“The community here opposes this data center, and if the community here opposes this data center, then I do.” 👏
Thank you for standing with us, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
Thank you for standing with us, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.
www.epa.gov
July 29, 2026 at 1:36 AM
The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.
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Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons?
Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
July 28, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons?
Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
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The administration is now asking the justices to allow the order to take effect ahead of the midterm elections, despite lower courts ruling that key provisions exceed presidential authority.
www.supremecourt.gov
July 28, 2026 at 12:51 PM
The administration is now asking the justices to allow the order to take effect ahead of the midterm elections, despite lower courts ruling that key provisions exceed presidential authority.
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Well, this isn’t good. The Trump administration has filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court blocked key parts of its executive order restricting mail-in voting.
July 28, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Well, this isn’t good. The Trump administration has filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court blocked key parts of its executive order restricting mail-in voting.