Cheryl Rofer
@CherylRofer
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Retired nuclear scientist: national security, nature, science, and women's issues. She, her https://t.co/VaGaGNRzyB https://t.co/89AX7DyNvJ
New Mexico
Joined April 2009
New pinned tweet 10/26/2023 As you've probably surmised, most of my activity is now on Bluesky. I post occasionally on Mastodon, too. I won't drop this account yet, but please come join me at Bluesky.
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New Interview: I talked to the novelist and commentator Howard Jacobson about his argument that sustained media coverage of children being killed in Gaza is functioning as a new “blood libel” against Jews. https://t.co/4CpS46K4OG
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What is going on in Gaza is morally indefensible.
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On Strategy and Military Support for Ukraine: Some thoughts on why I think the cries of "we need a strategy!" miss critical wartime context.
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Where the aid will go: So, what is the package going to do? It is likely to include air defence systems, mid to long-range missiles and artillery shells. Ukraine’s recent lack of them has led to...
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About 90-140 million birds are predicted to migrate across the U.S. each night this weekend! Lights at night can be very disorienting to birds during their long spring migration. To help prevent deadly bird collisions, turn off or dim unnecessary lights! Graphic: BirdCast
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It's not a flip-flop. She still wants to get elected and is lying to do it.
FLIP-FLOP ALERT: Once a cheerleader for Arizona’s "great law" prohibiting abortion, Kari Lake now singing a different tune, labeling it a "personal and private issue."
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Democrats are fighting to protect your reproductive freedoms. Republicans are working to punish women for making their own health care decisions.
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Since CBS brought it up again, I'll post my @ForeignPolicy article again. Tonight's CBS report provided nothing to contradict what I've said here. https://t.co/JEQCI7w13Z
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There’s little evidence for an unknown weapon being behind “Havana syndrome.”
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Thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of my first collection of reviews, Track Changes. I've been working on this book for nearly a year and am extremely proud of how it's come out. Pre-orders are open for an August 2024 publication.
New Briardene book incoming! Track Changes brings together the best of @NussbaumAbigail's writing about books, films and TV. August 2024, pre-order from the Briardene shop: https://t.co/DbD5Zosttt
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Big contrast here in two approaches. A lot depends on whether one talks about *risk* or *uncertainty.*
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What is wrong with this promo? https://t.co/8SdwdFthoc
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Another man who doesn't get it and doesn't care to.
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Full 7 minute footage of the events leading up to the collision of Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and following collapse in the Baltimore Harbor. Youtube link in Reply
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This is what the stock market looked like four years ago today on March 18, 2020:
ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO? Donald Trump Truth Social 07:58 AM EST 3/18/24
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The IVF issue is a golden opportunity to prove that the right doesn't believe its own bullshit about life beginning at fertilization. It's all bad faith rhetoric to artificially juice the stakes of the abortion debate. It has nothing to do with real life.
I have no desire for IVF to be attacked but making destroying embryos for IVF legal while justifying criminalizing abortion from the time of “conception” is completely nonsensical and nakedly hypocritical
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I have So. Many. Questions.
Grinding up basalt rock & distributing it over agricultural land is the most exciting carbon-removal tech yet, mainly because a) the infrastructure is already set up, b) it produces value outside carbon removal, & c) the potential scale is enormous. https://t.co/2gpaepH5j0
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Operations at the Pantex Plant returned to normal Wednesday, February 28, following non-essential personnel dismissals and shift cancellations February 27 due to wildfires north of the plant site. There is no imminent wildfire threat to the plant at this time.
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