Scott Shaeffer 🐸 🍉 🕊️
@sshaeff.bsky.social
We need to get big money out of politics and reform our electoral system. If you are surprised by the current state of affairs, may I suggest rethinking our US history from an Indigenous or Black perspective? Born in Philadelphia. 🔔 🇺🇸
What if Freud was right (at least some of the time)? A review, by @stossel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What if Freud Was Right?
A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.
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Jesus Christ. More than 120 allegations were documented by the BBC, beginning in 2002z. Maybe we should, I don’t know, believe women the first time. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers
The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.
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Watch as a little puffer fish makes a beautiful work of art 📽️: BBC documentary
Trump may be president on paper, but Stephen Miller-Russell Vought-Jared Kushner-Vladimir Putin are workin' the marionette.
“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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The first ducks to ever come to the sanctuary were rescued from a foie gras factory. We remember them always and cheer every step in the effort to end this form of animal torture
Plant Based News@plantbasednews.bsky.social · 6d agoFoie gras is a paté-like French delicacy 🙄
More space debris is raining down on Earth than ever before www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week (Gift Article)
Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
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Jeanne Gibson, one of the last surviving Rosie the Riveters, died on July 29, 2026. She was 100 Years old. Born in Minneapolis in 1926, she was only 18 when she moved to Seattle to weld U.S. Navy destroyers at Todd Pacific Shipyards. Rest in peace, Jeanne
"ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List"
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last wk.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...
On this day in 1910, a white mob of hundreds massacred Black residents in Slocum, a majority-Black community in Texas.
Jul. 29, 1910 | White Mob Massacres Black Residents in Slocum, Texas
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Let's make our movement more inclusive and accessible! Free workshop on accidental ableism in vegan and animal rights messaging tonight! Learn more and register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Todd Blanche retraumatized Epstein survivors. These malicious and sadistic acts were deliberate and fully premeditated.
Vegan and animal rights messaging sometimes excludes or insults disabled people. As a sanctuary founded by people with disabilities, we want to fix that! Register for this free workshop here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July is Nat’l Blueberry Month & the results of a recent Harvard study tracking 93,000 women over 18 yrs found those eating the most blueberries had a 32% lower heart attack risk. Blueberries are loaded w/ anthocyanins, pigments that keep blood vessels flexible & reduce inflammation in artery walls.
We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.
Orangutan moms in the wild actively plan meet-ups for their kids with other orangutan kids #orangutans #apes #primates #anthropology #nature
Orangutan mothers ‘arrange jungle playdates for their young’
A 15-year study has revealed how famously solitary apes plan meetings, and skip meals, so their babies can romp with other orangutan infants
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This morning, I joined every Democrat and four Republicans in voting again to stop this war with Iran. It's unpopular, it's unaffordable, it's unlawful, and it's time for it to end.
House again rebukes Trump on Iran, approving resolution to limit war powers
The House on Thursday voted to direct President Trump to end the war with Iran, after four Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke the president over his handling of the conflict.
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Thank you for speaking truth to power.
Sarah Godlewski@sarahgodlewski.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: A bipartisan Wisconsin elections commission voted 5-1 to refer Elon Musk to prosecutors after finding probable cause he illegally offered $1 million to sway voters in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Wisconsin elections are not for sale.
By 1956, active White Citizens' Councils were operating in 30 states, and by 1957, membership reached 250,000.
Jul. 11, 1954 | First White Citizens’ Council Forms to Oppose School Integration
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Meta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...
The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.
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This lost baby monkey was adopted by this cat
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience conscio...
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July 2019. 7 YEARS since the monster Epstein was indicted but where is the justice for victims ? Where are the promised investigations seven years later? substack.com/@katiephang/...
Katie Phang (@katiephang)
Today in 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was charged in a NY federal court with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. Seven years later and we ...
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