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Science communicator, museum worker and lifelong learner. Views are my own. I have nothing important to say. Expect high doses of science, nerd, pop culture and useless opinions. Also a dad. Oh shit, who let me do this?
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This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

You mean conflicts of evidence. The evidence being what they have to support their position and he does not. This is an absurd change that will actually cause unnecessary deaths.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

More than 90 scientists at the National Institutes of Health signed a letter in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health, in a rare sign of open resistance by career government employees.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

This is what we have come to expect.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

ICE will not be able to operate in LA again without looking over their shoulders. This is how it must be in every state and every city where they try to rip people off the streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I'm at the point where if I had a time machine I might just travel to a point where it's not raining in Pittsburgh.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This continues to be the best season of Bob's Burgers in many years. More people should be talking about this.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely love it when I see there is a new episode of Bob's Burgers.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I check the news

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

This cup finale has been unbelievable. This is the best there is in sports and not enough people understand that.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 4 days ago • 977 comments

Right-wing podcaster and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon says Elon Musk "crossed the Rubicon" by calling for impeachment. He says the president should deal with feud as "national security issue."

submitted 4 days ago • 91 comments

Looking up some numbers. Total health industry expenditures in the US average out to $14,000 per person per year. The Trump tax cuts "only" cost about $1,300 per person per year for ten years. That 14K is a HUGE number, in the same league as the whole federal budget...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

1 and 2 were solid. I'd say try Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2 would be my go to choice for these kind of RPGs.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Well at least there's this.

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The analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office also found that the version of the bill passed by the House last month would lead to nearly 11 million people going uninsured.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

This continues to be a shit show and we are only 6 mo in.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

WE HAD A DOMESTIC SCIENCE WORKFORCE TRUMP & MUSK FIRED HALF OF THEM

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

my god. I had to double-check that she actually said this in direct response to this question (she did)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

OK, read this thread. And then, perhaps, like me, you will think: WTAF? Yes, "Uncertainties over the science budgets for next year, coupled with cancellations of billions of dollars of already hard-won research grants, is [sic] causing an exodus of researchers from the U.S." And the solution?.../1

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

submitted 6 days ago • 111 comments

The federal government told states to turn over names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about food assistance recipients. Amid a legal challenge, the agency says the request is on hold.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

submitted 6 days ago • 95 comments

I'll march if you'll have me.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

submitted 7 days ago • 170 comments

It's June 1 and my heat is still on. This weather is madness.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 10 days ago • 240 comments

trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested: a judge a democratic mayor a democratic congresswoman now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 9 days ago • 379 comments

WHY IS IT STILL RAINING!?!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

With all due respect to op, in comradely critique, what we see here is that they are facing mass spontaneous resistance to their raids and they need crowd control techniques and tear gas to even do what they want to do. This is a video of increasingly effective resistance, not total police control

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) playing drums for the new Yellowcard album is a vibe. Kind of here for it. I love all the new albums coming out from early 00s emo and punk bands. We need it.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Ms Rachel said actually no I will not shut up

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The fact that the U.S. is turning inward and potentially set to decimate the science from its own space program while China is offering up its recently returned lunar samples for researchers around the world to analyze speaks volumes as to how the tides of science are going to shift.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

They truly do not value people. Human beings to them are commodities to be utilized and discarded.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Analytically this has been our most popular episode on YouTube. BECAUSE it’s true. Everybody hates Elon. Elon Musk Is a Lying About Leaving | TMT #129 youtu.be/bAvmKtwL2Xw

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

HE’S LYING! But keep printing whatever his PR team is putting out. That didn’t kill hundreds of thousands of people before.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

submitted 12 days ago • 289 comments