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Danielle Becker-Polinski, PhD

@coralonthemind

she/her | PhD from @uricels + Putnam Lab | 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellow at the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries | interested in all things #coral πŸͺΈ | nature enthusiast | ocean advocate | #BlackLivesMatter

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Massie Calls For Lutnick To Resign Over Epstein Connection Massie accused Lutnick of being in business with Epstein β€œmany years after” his conviction in 2008.

Massie accused Lutnick of being in business with Epstein β€œmany years after” his conviction in 2008.

08.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 14313 πŸ” 4850 πŸ’¬ 687 πŸ“Œ 309

Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.

Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.

22.01.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 6805 πŸ” 1825 πŸ’¬ 216 πŸ“Œ 50
.@DAGToddBlanche: β€œIt’s a crime β€” and so they will face a jury. If they’re convicted, they will go to prison… every single American should be enraged and heartbroken at what happened yesterday in that church.

.@DAGToddBlanche: β€œIt’s a crime β€” and so they will face a jury. If they’re convicted, they will go to prison… every single American should be enraged and heartbroken at what happened yesterday in that church.

Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted

19.01.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 17314 πŸ” 5590 πŸ’¬ 1265 πŸ“Œ 373
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Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely

13.01.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 16103 πŸ” 4035 πŸ’¬ 378 πŸ“Œ 294
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Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.

11.01.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 24709 πŸ” 6627 πŸ’¬ 1109 πŸ“Œ 288
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Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela The Trump regime has been amassing forces in the Caribbean as it threatens war against Venezuela. Over the past few months, they’ve bombed small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that they claim were...

Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...

03.01.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Strikes Venezuela And Says Its Leader, Maduro, Has Been Captured And Flown Out Of The Country The Venezuelan government called it an β€œimperialist attack” and urged citizens to take to the streets.

"The United States hit Venezuela with a 'large-scale strike' early Saturday and said its president, NicolΓ‘s Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country"

03.01.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 341 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 81
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KIMMEL, to the UK:

β€œ.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.”

@jimmykimmel.com

26.12.2025 03:27 πŸ‘ 14662 πŸ” 2759 πŸ’¬ 410 πŸ“Œ 140

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

20.11.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 16148 πŸ” 2762 πŸ’¬ 401 πŸ“Œ 91

Powerful.

16.11.2025 23:46 πŸ‘ 18837 πŸ” 7963 πŸ’¬ 328 πŸ“Œ 311
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Matt Gaetz raped a 17 year old child after exploiting her healthcare needs for money and this is how the NY Times is framing it.

"ended up having sex with powerful men"

Literally whitewashing child rape.

Corporate media is dead. Stop subscribing to it. This is beyond saving.

14.11.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 561 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 12
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Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say Reductions in weather balloon launches could have degraded forecasts that residents depend on to prepare

"A majority of western Alaska’s weather balloon network was not operating during the landfall of the storm last weekend due to staffing constraints inflicted by the Trump administration..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

27.10.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 3242 πŸ” 1505 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 44
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

26.10.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 33573 πŸ” 10647 πŸ’¬ 801 πŸ“Œ 517
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🎯🎯

21.10.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 15607 πŸ” 6319 πŸ’¬ 707 πŸ“Œ 277
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Planet Earth vs. Trump β€” lawsuits, lots of them. @earthjustice.org President, @abbiedillen.bsky.social, breaks down what the heck is happening in environmental law. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1773809532

21.10.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This immediately tells me they had thew wrong reporters on the story (again). i.e. The Whitehouse stenographers, not their reporters who know anything about the parks service and historical buildings.

21.10.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 211 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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NEWS: An AFP fact-check reveals that a video posted by Donald Trump and the White House depicting "chaos" in Chicago as justification for deploying the national guard features old footage of incidents in other states including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska.

16.10.2025 23:59 πŸ‘ 3670 πŸ” 1624 πŸ’¬ 146 πŸ“Œ 95
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Judge orders federal immigration officers in Chicago area to wear body cameras Agents also appear to have violated order banning them from using riot-control, such as tear gas, without warning

Federal immigration officers in Chicago area have been ordered by court to wear body cameras after they repeatedly deployed pepper balls, smoke grenades & tear gas against protesters & local police, seemingly in violation of a fed judge’s ruling from last week.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

16.10.2025 19:44 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

06.10.2025 11:17 πŸ‘ 19151 πŸ” 5942 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 568
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KEILAR: A Post poll shows more Americans are blaming Republicans for the shutdown. Does that give you pause?

MARSHALL: I discount that poll altogether

K: Why?

M: There are so many other polls that say the opposite

K: Which one?

M: I don't have them at my fingertips. That's a very biased poll

03.10.2025 17:58 πŸ‘ 2452 πŸ” 523 πŸ’¬ 290 πŸ“Œ 98

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

02.10.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 32074 πŸ” 15411 πŸ’¬ 645 πŸ“Œ 724
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

29.09.2025 20:24 πŸ‘ 39618 πŸ” 12662 πŸ’¬ 748 πŸ“Œ 462

Quick reminder that consuming Tylenol has a 0% chance of causing autism but consuming MAGA at all has a 100% chance of causing fascism.

22.09.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 409 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a β€œdeep state” probe in early 2025.

Breaking - Border Czar Tom Homan was recorded accepting $50K from undercover FBI agents. The Trump DOJ shut down the case: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

20.09.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 729 πŸ” 325 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 38
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Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

17.09.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 26310 πŸ” 9970 πŸ’¬ 644 πŸ“Œ 522
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BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.

05.09.2025 12:41 πŸ‘ 15778 πŸ” 5973 πŸ’¬ 1566 πŸ“Œ 795

For the first time in 111 years, a President is planning to fire a sitting Fed governorβ€”and of course, it’s the first Black woman, Lisa Cook.

Trump’s message is clear: when Black women rise, he’ll do anything to push us down.

Newsflash: we’re not going anywhere.

26.08.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 6272 πŸ” 1531 πŸ’¬ 191 πŸ“Œ 59
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The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshimaβ€”killing members of my family.

06.08.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 18712 πŸ” 4692 πŸ’¬ 441 πŸ“Œ 152
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CRISPR Gene Editing Halts Spread of Malaria by Replacing a Single Gene in Mosquitoes Researchers have created a CRISPR-based gene-editing system that changes a single molecule within mosquitoes to stop the malaria-parasite transmission process.

Using CRISPR to change a single molecule within mosquitoes stops the malaria-parasite transmission process. Genetically altered mosquitoes are still able to bite those with malaria and acquire parasites from their blood, but the parasites can no longer be spread to other people.

25.07.2025 19:57 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2