a-puh-lach-a.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Many 100s came together for our tiny Appalachian town’s #HandsOff protest. #HillbilliesNeedNoElegy

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Every House Republican but one voted to gut the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP). Every GOP Senator voted to cut the CDMRP by 57% too. When it came time to allocate those cuts, they decided that lung cancer research should go from $25m in 2024 to 0 in 2025. Are we great yet?

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Several European countries are offering a sort of asylum to American scientists who feel they can no longer do their work here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 92 days ago • 9 comments

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

submitted 103 days ago • 782 comments

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

A demand that biopharma NOT cozy up to the Musk-Trump administration "by the time you can unequivocally point to things that have started going wrong in industry because academic research has been stomped flat, it will be far too late to do anything about it" www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 120 days ago • 8 comments

If you’re a federal employee who got an email from Elon asking what you did last week, reply, “Not as much ketamine as you did, fuckwad”

submitted 122 days ago • 18 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 130 days ago • 1066 comments

I love living in the United States, where I don’t even f*ck around but have to find out anyway.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

The 🍊🤡 & Elmo really want Americans to suffer: “The NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins” Research saves lives. Call your senators today! www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

“How many people need to leave Gaza?” Trump (with Netanyahu): “All of them.”

submitted 140 days ago • 221 comments

A transgender veteran at Syracuse VA Medical Center died by an apparent suicide outside the top of the hospital’s parking garage Monday. Witnesses said the person was wrapped in a body-length transgender pride flag. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

submitted 142 days ago • 1078 comments

Many people are waking up today to the fact Trumps pause on medical research has stopped the clinical trials for cancer research and their only chance of living is put on pause by then President of the United States.

submitted 149 days ago • 4 comments

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the country’s largest public biomedical research funder: $40b annually. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

This times a centillion.

submitted 153 days ago • 162 comments

"There are gay, lesbian & transgender children in Democratic, Republican & independent families, some who fear for their lives." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

Sent from my friend in Portland Maine on January 20, 2025. So many people across the country I love & am grateful for. In solidarity with each of you, every day.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed - and who try to make slaves of all of us - and they have their music and we have ours. ― Woody Guthrie

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

More than ever, we need to engage with & support independent, rigorous journalism from people & sources with intellectual + journalistic integrity. No false equivalencies, no cowardice. Give @contrariannews.org a follow on Bluesky & Substack.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Today, a North Carolina judge rejected a request from the Republican National Committee (RNC), North Carolina GOP, Wake County GOP and two voters to toss out nearly 60,000 ballots cast in all November 2024 statewide races. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 162 days ago • 171 comments

SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...

submitted 167 days ago • 134 comments

2024 "winners" of the annual Shkreli awards, the worst examples of profiteering & dysfunction in US healthcare. Named after Martin Shkreli, the pharma bro who increased the cost of lifesaving anti-parasitic drug Daraprim 50-fold (& he disrespected Wu-Tang): www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

The race for a seat on North Carolina's Supreme Court took another turn Tuesday. #ncpol nsjonline.com/article/2025...

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

It's interesting to see news presenters saying that Starmer can't just ignore attacks on Twitter because they have real world effects, when for years they've been telling trans people, immigrants, Muslims etc. to do exactly that.

submitted 170 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

1/Earlier this month, and largely unnoticed by the national media, a man from southern Virginia was arrested with what has been called the largest cache of explosives ever, perhaps 150 devices. And it's a very curious case. www.smithfieldtimes.com/2024/12/30/f...

submitted 175 days ago • 739 comments

www.cbsnews.com/.../good-new... Good 2024 news: Google's AlphaFold (AI) project has mapped all 200m known proteins in the body. It used to take years to map out a single disease-causing protein mutation. Google has shared this data for free & over 2m research projects are already underway using it.

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

"Sir, you’re absolutely right about all this, but where the hell have you been? We told y’all this would happen. Repeatedly. Incessantly. We could not have been more clear that this was inevitable." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/faces-leop...

submitted 178 days ago • 7 comments

Why did their state pick United Health to cover their Medicaid plan? While Universal care sounds good. The reality is that our gov approve the Medicare Advantage plans offered by the BUCAs. Maybe we need to change what we expect and what we need from gov chosen plans first ?

submitted 189 days ago • 264 comments

#Brandolini'sLaw, AKA the bullsht asymmetry principle, emphasizes the effort of #debunking #misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. It states: The amount of energy needed to refute bullsht is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

Using Your Agency, Post #1 (Applying Lessons from Cancer to Our Post-Election World): The Beloved Community substack.com/history/post...

submitted 213 days ago • 0 comments