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@dentonrg.bsky.social

Defender of democracy + 💚🎾 #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles - ALL of em #remove47 🇺🇸 Julie K. Brown, a BOSS 🔥🙏 + Pulitzer well deserved (and overdue!) Banner: cliff atop Half Dome, Yosemite 😎 ©️ claimed for original creative works 🎨

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · yesterday

With our nation's DOJ corrupted by Trump, state AGs like California's Rob Bonta and New York's Letitia James have even more critical roles to play in preserving the rule of law in American democracy. #TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica www.latimes.com/california/s...

$207 billion saved for California from 82 lawsuits against Trump administration, Bonta says

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta credited his lawsuits against the Trump administration for protecting more than $200 billion in funding, defending core civil rights and removing military forces from L...

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 4d ago

Dem "Texas Senate candidate James Talarico appears to be winning support from a sizable block of Republican voters, according to a new Fox News poll released Thursday. "Nearly one in four non-MAGA Republicans said they would ... vote for Talarico." #TurnTexasBlue 💙🇺🇸 thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Talarico leads Paxton by 3 points in Texas Senate race: Fox News poll

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico appears to be winning support from a sizable block of Republican voters, according to a new Fox News poll released Thursday. The survey found Talari…

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 5d ago

🎯💯 www.instagram.com/reel/DZfok7r...

postlive on Instagram: "At the Building America Summit, @MIT president Sally Kornbluth talked about the threat to "curiosity-driven research" and America’s…"

At the Building America Summit, @MIT president Sally Kornbluth talked about the threat to "curiosity-driven research" and America’s technological competitiveness from the federal research funding cuts. "We're going to find that 10 years from now, 20 years from now, the pipeline is absolutely dry," Kornbluth told @washingtonpost futures editor Zachary Goldfarb.

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DemCast USA@demcast.com · last wk.

It’s wild that basic constitutional knowledge isn’t required to be a federal judge. Judicial nominee John Marck couldn't even say if a president can serve a 3rd term under the 22nd Amendment—saying he'd need to "review" it. The Constitution is clear: the answer is NO.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

When Sen. Ashley Moody was the Florida AG, her office approved the diversion of $10m of taxpayer money--intended to expand Medicaid--to go to two PACs instead. One of those PACs was controlled by the governor and his chief of staff. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal

As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation

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Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · last wk.

Despite the implied threats, the law is clear: sending armed federal agents, including ICE, to polling sites is illegal. Federal and state laws prohibit voter intimidation and election interference. Our new analysis explains what the law says and why these threats must be taken seriously.

Preventing Voter Intimidation by Federal Agents at the Polls

Any deployment that intimidates voters or interferes with elections would be illegal. Should one occur, officials and civil society are prepared to challenge illegal acts so that voting can proceed un...

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"federal government [support of] scientific research at U.S. universities over the past 80 years has yielded essential breakthroughs including radar technology that helped win [WW2], computer systems that enabled the moon landing, and life-saving vaccines." #remove47 🤓 news.yale.edu/2026/07/23/y...

Yale, other universities join amicus brief in support of Harvard in its lawsuit against the federal government

Yale this week joined a legal brief pertaining to a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s effort to freeze federal grants and contracts.

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thank goodness for book reviewers like Maria Popova, who write like butter, and with a a pristine elegance at the same time 🤓😍📚🧬 www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/19/t...

From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a horizonl…

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"While opponents to adding these peptides to the list argued there wasn’t enough data to prove safety and efficacy, supporters essentially argued there was not enough to disprove these claims either." #RepublicansCantGovern 🤦‍♂️ #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica 💙 thehill.com/homenews/598...

FDA panel votes to add peptides to permitted compounding list despite opposition from agency scientists

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) committee on compounded drugs broke with agency scientists and voted in favor of adding peptides to the list of substances compounding ph…

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Rather than destroying raw attentional capacity, continuous exposure to immediate, low-effort rewards (such as infinite scrolling and notifications) reshapes the brain’s internal cost-benefit valuation of cognitive effort." Duh 🙄🤷‍♂️ neurosciencenews.com/digital-medi...

Digital Media Alters Cognitive Willingness - Neuroscience News

A computational neuroscience study presents an effort recalibration model of digital media and focus.

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Grace Shelley@graceshelley.bsky.social · 2w ago

@support.bsky.team My account has been hacked. I keep getting these badge messages. I left all the chats yesterday. It was all cleaned out, & now I looked this morning & there r scores more of these msgs there. they r going out 2 other people on Bluesky & people r blocking me. HELP!

Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"It’s an admission that ... the research professors say is proof that the agencies illegally cancelled nearly $2 billion in grants. And that’s a major development in a lawsuit filed by UC researchers against the Trump administration to permanently get their grants back." apnews.com/article/cali...

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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Denton 🇺🇸@dentonrg.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The models escaped a sandboxed testing environment, accessed the internet and exploited a vulnerability to gain access to Hugging Face's systems, OpenAI said. It was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," according to Hugging Face." #AI #AIAgents www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/...

OpenAI cyber models broke out of training environment to hack Hugging Face

The incident is unique because it was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," according to Hugging Face.

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