Bruce Kiesel
@bhkiesel.bsky.social
Estuarine ecologist(A.B.D.) Interests incl. online databases/publishing, biology, environmental issues/climate change, running, cycling...
Another lying Trump Administration official. Yep, celebrating children and families having to get by with less is a big win for Trump and the GOP. www.commondreams.org/news/brooke-...
Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid 'A Pretty Big Win' | Common Dreams
"The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, 'a pretty big win,'" said one policy expert.
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Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
A pretty impressive location for smell receptors! #insects #inverebrates www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Moth wings have a sense of smell
Insect wings are fantastically sensitive, feeling the wind, touch and even tasting. Now researchers from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology t...
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This is where Trump spends your tax dollars. "The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion to undertake mass deportations throughout the second Trump administration." www.epi.org/publication/...
The Cost of Deportations Calculator: Technical documentation
The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion to undertake mass deportations throughout the second Trump ...
epi.org
Great to see this! whyy.org/articles/pen...
Pennsylvania responds to White House’s attempts to change mail-in ballot rules
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia election officials warn that imposing new federal mail-ballot rules before the midterms could sow confusion and disenfranchise eligible voters.
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Here’s an issue that Pennsylvania State lawmakers need to work together on to help solve. It’s too important to disregard… EVERY child deserves the opportunity to get a good education. whyy.org/articles/pen...
How the costly digital age is leaving behind Pa.’s rural, underfunded schools
Students in remote school districts like Otto-Eldred are using failing, outdated technology. In some cases, it's costing them their futures.
whyy.org
"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Dementia Don… Judge his mental status for yourself, based on his own posts.
Spiro’s Ghost@antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 2d agoI mean this in all seriousness, this is a severely mentally ill & delusional person who not only should be removed from office under the 25th amendment, but he should be in a psych ward. This is pure insanity on so many levels. He lives in a fantasy world. He is unwell & has lost touch with reality.
Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident
“It’s not going to make someone more likely to fight ferociously and defend their band of brothers in the middle of battle. I think it’s just as likely that they’ll get into a fist fight with someone in their barracks.” Emblematic of Hegseth’s scientific ignorance… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/s...
Hegseth Wants a ‘High-T’ Military. Could That Pose Risks to Soldiers, or Society? (Gift Article)
A new policy raises questions about testosterone’s effect on aggression in some men.
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RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”
If I was this stupid and incompetent, I would be out of a job... just saying.
REMOVE RFK Jr. from office. He is an unqualified idiot. He lies almost as frequently as his boss - and the deaths that he’s responsible for are climbing. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
'You're Talking Nonsense!': RFK Jr. Totally Crashes Out On CNN Host In Wild Interview
Dana Bash hit back at Trump’s health secretary as he tried to don his vaccine skeptic hat on the network.
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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nope, it's Trump, the GOP and others in his administration... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story
The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.
theatlantic.com
On Donald Trump’s remarks about GLP-1 drugs… “I don’t give a f**k what that idiot says about them or anything else.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's Latest Name For GLP-1s Has Doctors And Patients Raising An Important Concern
Despite the president’s comments, patients say these medications have been life-changing, and their effectiveness cannot be ignored.
huffpost.com
This could be a game changer... This AI Raygun can shrink and supersize proteins — opening the door to easy editing www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This AI Raygun can shrink and supersize proteins — opening the door to easy editing
The model can modify existing proteins using a probability approach.
nature.com
THANK YOU, DR. ANTHONY FAUCI FOR YOUR DECADES OF SERVICE TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL AMERICANS! FUCK RAND PAUL! FUCK THE ENTIRE GOP! FUCK JOHN FETTERMAN! FUCK DONALD TRUMP! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
5 takeaways from the Senate hearing where Fauci refused to answer questions
The hearing about covid origins became a Republican pile-on, with Anthony S. Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment and Democrats defending him — mostly.
washingtonpost.com
FUCK RAND PAUL AND THE ENTIRE GOP!!! They have dishonored Dr. Anthony Fauci, a TRULY GREAT AMERICAN. This is a dark day for America…
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · last wk.Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
When the administration in power is anti-science, people die, it’s that simple. Trust doctors, not politicians… www.ms.now/opinion/cdc-...
Opinion | We are South Carolina pediatricians fighting for parents to get accurate info about vaccines
Martha Edwards and Deborah Greenhouse: Vaccines do not cause autism. We need a CDC that states that as truth.
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason." ~ Voltaire
Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
Elon Musk calls medical school 'pointless,' says robots will beat any surgeon in 3 years — telling students to walk away
Medical experts, however, strongly disagree with Musk's claims.
finance.yahoo.com