@berobie.bsky.social
RPI grad, APO brother, retired ObGyn, music lover, volunteer, climate enthusiast
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
A web search for "Hearing a lie repeated" provides many links as to why Trump keeps repeating his lies. The simple fact is human come to believe a repeated lie. How often have you heard him say his goons invading the capital after his failure to win have been unfairly locked up? 🧪 #Republican
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
WHYY reports on research by Monmouth University and The Nature Conservancy on how #climatechange is altering the New Jersey bay marshes that sharks rely on as nurseries. 🦈🧪 whyy.org/articles/new...
Climate change threatens New Jersey’s shark nurseries
Three species of shark use New Jersey’s coastal salt marshes as nurseries — the sandbar shark, the smooth dogfish and the sand tiger shark.
whyy.org
Wildlife doesn't recognize borders... As Trump rolls back endangered species protection, experts say Canadian wildlife is also at risk🧪 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t... Animals that cross between the two countries could be affected by habitat loss or damage in the U.S
Trump weakened U.S. habitat protections. Canadian wildlife could pay the price | CBC News
The Trump administration is being sued by conservation groups over a change they say will weaken habitat protection for endangered species. In Canada, experts say the move could also harm animals that...
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Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
politico.com
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Remind me, please, why we killed millions of whales Why are we destroying the oceans ? warming them? polluting them? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Many have pointed out that Todd Blanche has targeted Trump’s political adversaries with “bogus criminal cases,” Ankush Khardori writes in a guest essay. “Less noted but as important: He is also embarrassingly bad at lawyering.”
Opinion | There Are So Many Reasons to Reject Todd Blanche. Here’s Another One.
Don’t forget this key reason the Senate should reject him.
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
nytimes.com
UPDATE: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service (Gift Article)
The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.
nytimes.com
Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · last wk.Sandy Weiswasser for President. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is
Whales are not simply animals of the sea. They are apart of a system that stabilizes climate by supporting phytoplankton growth and carbon capture. When their populations decline, the ripple spreads outward.
Come ask us anything all day today! https://redd.it/1vbns0v 🧪 🩺 🛟 #breastfeeding #MedSky #PublicHealth #SciComm #wbw2026
The ocean isn’t just overheating, it’s LOSING ITS BREATH. Scientists say global waters have already lost around 2% of their oxygen, pushing marine life towards an “unsafe space” with potentially irreversible impacts. Protect the oceans, stop new oil and gas.
Fishermen all over the internet, media, and even congressional hearings are spreading the myth that sharks have become “overpopulated” in the US and should be culled. I charted the NOAA data to show how insane that is. #MarineLife 🧪
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
open.substack.com
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Men’s and women’s muscles may respond differently to the same workout. Research in AJP-Regu finds high-intensity intervals boosted growth-and-repair signals in men while dampening inflammatory signals in women: https://ow.ly/TY6i50ZrxJm #ArticlesInPress #SABV #ExerciseScience 🧪 📷: iStock
Data Centers are not "job creators." They are resource extractors, siphoning off our water and power.
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
Space debris by the numbers: The estimated weight is 13,486 tonnes, the equivalent of 13 million adult cane toads. 🧪 🔭 #SpaceJunk
13,000 tonnes of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here’s how it could be cleaned up
Properly addressing the problem of space requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy.
theconversation.com