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Thursday GNR: Bluesky, 36 Million Members, >10% of US [1]
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Date: 2025-06-26
Does that count toward the 3.5% mark that researchers have told us about? (PDF) Not that all Blueskyers are protesting, but look at what I find there increasingly every week and report to you in these GNRs. Look at the explosion in the number of Lists, Feeds, Starter Packs and other aids to finding each other in the resistance, as I have recounted in several Tuxville group posts.
Exploding Topics: Bluesky User Age, Gender, & Demographics (2025)
Approximately 1 user joins Bluesky every second [There are 31 million seconds in a year] This figure almost doubled in a matter of weeks, growing from 13 million in late October 2024, and 25 million in December 2024. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the most-followed person on Bluesky
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social
2.1M followers 568 following 540 posts Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
That doesn’t say how many users pinned those feeds.
John Lewis Good Trouble Day, July 17
x BREAKING: The Organizers of one of the most successful protests in recent US history, the No Kings protest, have just announced the "Good Trouble Lives On" protest on July 17th July 17th marks 5 years since the death of John Lewis, who coined the phrase "Good Trouble" Who's in? 👋 — Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
x Seizing on the momentum from last weekend, another big round of protests are scheduled for July 17th. That day also marks 5 years since the passing of the late great civil rights icon John Lewis. As Lewis said: “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.”
[image or embed] — Scott Dworkin (@dworkin.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
x GoodTroubleLivesOn.org "Don't despair. "Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." John Lewis
🎨: @rickfrausto.bsky.social
[image or embed] — Larry Tenney (@larrytenney.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
x “Do not get lost
in a sea of despair.
Be hopeful, be optimistic.
Our struggle is not
the struggle of a day,
a week, a month, or a year,
it is the struggle of a lifetime.
Never, ever be afraid
to make some noise
and get in good trouble,
necessary trouble.”
— John Lewis — Activate Maine💪🗓️ (@activatemaine.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them
x An amazing tidbit in @punchbowlnews.bsky.social today tells us everything we need to know about the Republican Party. (And Mitch McConnell, of course, but in his case we already knew it.) #MitchMcConnell
[image or embed] — Jess Craven ❌👑 (@jesscraven101.bsky.social) June 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
x Punchbowl News is reporting on the comments Sen. McConnell (R/KY) made to his colleagues behind closed doors. “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it.”
[image or embed] — @janettes-999.bsky.social (@janettes-999.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Trump is no stranger to setting 2-week deadlines. Here's how others have played out
President Trump said Thursday that he will decide whether the U.S. will take military action in the growing Israel-Iran conflict "within two weeks." It's a timeline he's used many times before, dating back to his first term. Over the years, Trump has promised action on policy issues from tax legislation to minimum wage increases to health care within two weeks. He's hinted at conspiracy theories to be resolved and policy decisions to be revealed within a fortnight — only for his announcements to materialize months later or not at all.
Yes, as always, TACO + ETTD. Even MAGA can’t stand it.
Big Bad Betrayal Bill
Jennifer Rubin
x Nick Kristof: The Waste Musk Created “Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
[image or embed] — Chris Keppler (@chriskeppler.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Back and forth, fack and borth...Deport all essential ag and leisure workers...No, don’t do that...Do it anyway. Even several percent of ultra-MAGAites can’t stand it, far more than we need to flip Congress in the midterms.
x “A horrible display of waste… rotting fruits and vegetables… store after store closed… if the ice raids continue be ready for even bigger sticker shock when you go grocery shopping…” 🍎 🥕
[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We do need more guest workers under legal permits, but we need to get out and protest stripping their human rights.
x Department of Labor Suspends Protections for H-2A Guest Workers and Announces Plan to Bring in More Read the latest from the Food Policy Tracker ➡️ buff.ly/5nJotSq
[image or embed] — Civil Eats (@civileats.com) June 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
x Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical. These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months. Removing them puts millions of lives at risk. wapo.st/3FQovhf
[image or embed] — Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA (@krutikakuppalli.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Palate and Brain Cleanser
Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue BWV 582 for Low Recorders
16K subscribers
57,214 views May 6, 2025 Performed on Tenor, Bass, Great Bass, and Contrabass recorders. Download the score and parts to this arrangement and find many other arrangements at
https://RecorderDots.com - Play along with our revolutionary mixer that works in all browsers and doesn't require any downloads. Your membership supports the creation of more custom made content for recorders. Free content available. 00:00 Passacaglia 06:19 Fugue 10:40 Grand Pause I have played soprano, alto, tenor, and bass recorders, but nothing lower.
Regular Good News
x Barret Hansen — better known as Dr. Demento — is retiring after 55 years in radio. The 84-year-old broadcaster has introduced audiences to "comedy songs, parodies, and musical oddities" since 1970. And episodes from his entire run are archived on his website. sopghreporter.com/2025/06/01/d...
[image or embed] — Will McKinley (@willmckinley.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness!
x It’s absolutely mindblowing that JWST can directly image exoplanets, even when they’re *below freezing* and are extra hard to see in the infrared light that JWST is sensitive to 🧪🔭
scitechdaily.com/nasa-just-fo...
[image or embed] — Adam McMaster (@adammc.space) June 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
x The herpes virus that causes cold sores starts reshaping our genome within an hour of infecting cells - targeting this process could help treat severe cases, or even lead to treatments against other viruses. Read @newscientist.com. www.newscientist.com/article/2484...
[image or embed] — Carissa Wong (@carissacwwong.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
x 💥 🍃 🏥 New Stem Cell Therapy Effective for Severe Diabetes (Type 1)
🧪
Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients New England Journal of Medicine Report
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549
Gift Article NYT
[image or embed] — kinesinmotors.bsky.social (@kinesinmotors.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
x In a follow-up to our recent coverage of the NIH, our latest piece talks about the NSF’s role in funding basic science in the U.S. and how that role is being threatened by restructuring, budget cuts, and cuts to training programs and fellowships like REUs and the GRFP. Read about it here: 🧪 #scicomm
[image or embed] — Isabella Cisneros (@isabellaclsci.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
x It's #WorldRainforestDay! 🌴 Australia's Gondwana Rainforests hold examples of major evolutionary & geological stages dating ~359 mya, including the largest surviving population of Araucarians (the most phylogenetically primitive species of conifer) 👴 Code & high-res 📷 👇 #rstats #dataviz 📊🧪🌏🌳
[image or embed] — Dax Kellie (@daxkellie.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
It’s true. Borowitz didn’t make that up.
Meth. We’re on it. South Dakota Meth Prevention Full Commercial 2019
Funny Music
I’m sorry about showing this guy’s face. I hope you agree with me that it is worth it.
DONALD TRUMP : The Muppet Show Mashup (Mahna-mahna)
How Do You Solve A Problem Like A MAGA? The Sound Of Music Nuns Have Their Say...
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