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Secular Franciscan, follower of Jesus and St. Francis, physicist interested in operating principles of synthetic and biological molecular machines, and non-equilibrium chemistry, wine, hiking, travel, social justice.
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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Trump demands that Israel drop all court proceedings against "Great War Time Prime Minister" Netanyahu

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submitted 2 days ago • 380 comments

Nutshell of the Republican strategy - appoint people who are so stupid, evil, and corrupt that the thought of any of them replacing the stupid, evil, and corrupt person that the electorate was stupid, evil, and corrupt enough to elect. What a horrible position we have put ourselves in.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, on World Refugee Day, Bishop Michael Pham led a delegation of clergy to a Federal building in downtown San Diego to support immigrants at their court hearings: “Eventually the ICE agents scattered and went away. No wonder people were in fear of coming to court”

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

a boreal - otherwise known as a carnivorous - forest?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I miss Call Sagan.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is indeed stealing from the corpses of democracy, decency, charity, and true patriotism. Vultures feed off of carrion because of instinct, humans like Trump et al. do so by choice.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

And millions of people accept this as normal and not a sign of a significantly disordered personality.

submitted 6 days ago • 260 comments

Those who haven't learned that supporting sexual abusers is a very bad idea are just hopeless at this point.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not only does the clergy's practicing what they preach have a real effect on our system, but it bolsters the resolve of the laity to live out what we believe. These examples show how the early church was able to grow despite opposition- the commitment of the most fervent believers inspiring others.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 95 comments

Gorgeous!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I thought this was required reading for pharmacists.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

100% of the Jury that convicted him said he definitely committed crimes.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

sadly, because over 50% of the voters are themselves pretty awful people. In 2016, one could blame stupidity. In 2024, those who voted for a convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist knew they were voting for evil and chose to do so anyway.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

submitted 9 days ago • 900 comments

As they’re trying to do the right thing

submitted 9 days ago • 568 comments

I volunteer at an elder facility. A 105 year old woman still refers to her 103 year old sister as "the kid".

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submitted 10 days ago • 349 comments

DOE came up with more efficient and better batteries so we can use the devices we love without destroying the environment as badly, NOAA can now warn us earlier about impending storms, FEMA helps families reconstruct their lives after disasters. The list goes on and on and on.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

we (the NIH) came up with better vaccines to protect their children, research from NASA came up with better materials to keep our children comfortable in a wider range of circumstances, NSF used relativity to create better track systems so we can find our children when they are lost in the woods,

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🚨🧵shared by Prof @michael-hoerger.bsky.social on the word choices researchers have to carefully balance if they want to be considered for funding via US federal sources: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19347... Link to the tool Mike used (tool from @drseanmullen.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/scanassist

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Raskin on Trump's corruption: "Whatever kind of varnish they had from the first administration is completely off now. They're not even pretending to do anything else ... it's a gangster state."

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

EPIC response.

submitted 12 days ago • 1597 comments

🧪We have an ACIP panel of unqualified people that will shape vaccine policies. RFK Jr. believes in the miasma theory rather than a germ theory of disease. Research shows that repetition of a myth renders it more likely to be believed, even when ppl know it is false. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Almost everyone supports deporting criminals who are in our country illegally. Almost no one supports allowing law enforcement agents to make that determination unilaterally. That is why we have due process, and why due process is so important that it is guaranteed to all by the constitution.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Great to see the world's most famous American giving good advice to young people, and to us all.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I will always vote for someone who believes in something beyond themselves over someone who is only out for themselves.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

submitted 12 days ago • 289 comments

The words we choose indicate the time scale of our perspective.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Weihenstefaner's with my son today, similar color liquid. All is good!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I am anti-racist, but still woefully ignorant of much of the history of racism in our country. This looks to be a great opportunity to learn and form my understanding.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

lets face it, silence is Trumps most magnanimous response.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

what a shock

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The entire country is in your debt, I thank you and every sentient person thanks you. This is what we need. The principles on which our country was founded are worth the fight!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is doubtless upset (not the word I would choose) that he can't order civilians to show up in the way he can the military.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The church looks to the millenia, Trump can't even plan for tomorrow.

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There are many, many ways in which we reverence the Holy Family by imagining the events not spelled out in the Gospel, and all of them are right, while none of them are true.

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