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Associate Professor, Urologic Oncologist at University of Washington, Fred Hutch. Health and equity advocate. Food, music, sports (Boomer Sooner) and ski lover.

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 👍 47154 🔁 19330 💬 1352 📌 795

Painful loss. Enjoyed the ride @oklahomafootball.bsky.social #boomer

20.12.2025 04:46 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

How is this happening??

20.12.2025 02:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oklahoma kicker Tate Sandell has tied an FBS single-season record with 8 field goals of 50+ yards.

He's 8-for-8 on the season.

20.12.2025 01:50 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

DUKE FOOTBALL WINS THE ACC

07.12.2025 04:58 👍 302 🔁 30 💬 13 📌 9

It just dawned on me that Miami fired Manny Diaz to make room for Mario Christobal and Diaz is going to make an ACC Conference Title Game before Christobal

30.11.2025 04:42 👍 431 🔁 66 💬 3 📌 11
Duke sickos
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30.11.2025 04:50 👍 338 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 3

PLAYOFF BOUND BABY!! Boomer!

30.11.2025 01:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When you desperately want to starve Americans:

06.11.2025 23:06 👍 14452 🔁 5291 💬 738 📌 362

ESPN can keep their channels, just need FOX at the moment

02.11.2025 03:44 👍 75 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

Oklahoma scoring a TD on a fumble return but losing their best defender in the process is pretty much the Venables era in a nutshell so far

02.11.2025 00:18 👍 126 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 1
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These goddamn double plays

20.10.2025 01:22 👍 1121 🔁 57 💬 44 📌 1

They finally figured it out! Making this fall really fun.

18.10.2025 00:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JORGE POLANCO WALKS IT OFF

11.10.2025 05:10 👍 695 🔁 113 💬 11 📌 41
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11.10.2025 03:58 👍 1436 🔁 57 💬 54 📌 5
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HE'S GOT 58!

Cal Raleigh is unreal! 🔱

21.09.2025 23:39 👍 121 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 13

Very proud of this work led by Jenney Lee and our partners at BACPAC. More to come in this area as we build toward equitable prostate cancer resources and intervention in prostate cancer #pcsm

19.09.2025 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The new star in Oklahoma.

07.09.2025 03:39 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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An undeniably beautiful shot from today’s Thunder parade that captures the growth of the city and what it has overcome over the last 30 years to get to this moment — and just how much that title means to OKC.

(via the OKC National Memorial IG story; taken — I believe — by Thunder photog Jimmy Do)

24.06.2025 23:28 👍 320 🔁 83 💬 5 📌 22
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“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

18.06.2025 01:00 👍 13586 🔁 3149 💬 194 📌 129
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via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok

14.06.2025 20:47 👍 15245 🔁 3798 💬 429 📌 334

Out of an abundance of caution my Department of Public Safety is recommending that people do not attend any political rallies today in Minnesota until the suspect is apprehended.

14.06.2025 16:16 👍 15024 🔁 2927 💬 1336 📌 526
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Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Legislators targeted by suspect impersonating police A shelter-in-place alert was sent out at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning by the Brooklyn Park Police Department after multiple shootings. A suspect in the shooting may be impersonating law enforcement and ...

This is a shocking development. Two leading Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in Minnesota were shot in their homes early this morning by a man possibly impersonating a police officer. This is the kind of violence we have been warning about. www.fox9.com/news/brookly...

14.06.2025 13:48 👍 3089 🔁 1264 💬 237 📌 94
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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

10.06.2025 15:02 👍 16564 🔁 5564 💬 503 📌 247

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

23.03.2025 13:08 👍 73131 🔁 12679 💬 4900 📌 2190

A 57% cut to CDMRP would be devastating to our goal to end pain and suffering for ALL cancer patients across the US #pcsm #bcsm

14.03.2025 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com

That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

14.03.2025 03:32 👍 34234 🔁 9123 💬 984 📌 335

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

17.02.2025 00:25 👍 11038 🔁 3543 💬 387 📌 232
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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

14.02.2025 23:25 👍 23216 🔁 8568 💬 793 📌 587

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

14.02.2025 19:01 👍 21730 🔁 8254 💬 1030 📌 1079