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"Create a journal for replication work". 🙄 This comes up time again as if there aren't existing places to put replications. PLOSOne will taken them, plenty of other journals will, and bioRxiv has had an article type called "Confirmatory Results" since we launched in 2013!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

From a strategic standpoint, it seems important to remember that the 'center of gravity' of a protest movement is not control of the streets, but public opinion. The challenge that creates is a common strategic challenge: the emotionally satisfying thing is not the effective thing.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

This skateboarder kid represents true US resistance vs the Trump regime's fascist authoritarianism attacking US cities and communities nationwide. Dozens of regime ICE troops assaulted him and he still came out on top. #3E #StopICE (📹 @jeremotographs.bsky.social )

submitted 3 days ago • 187 comments

Trump regime ICE forces firing randomly at US citizens in Los Angeles over the weekend. The brave people of California rose up to protect their communities from masked unidentified fascists that were abducting innocent people off the streets.

submitted 4 days ago • 163 comments

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Expect a fixed “sue and settle” outcome with MAGA DOJ. Taxpayer resources to political allies is their specialty. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 118 comments

“Among the canceled contracts was one to maintain a gene sequencing device used to develop better cancer treatments.”

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Sneaky bastards! The GOP hide a provision that makes it more expensive to seek legal action against trump’s policies. Autocrats do this. Consolidate power, increase the penalty for objecting, making it impossible to challenge them. www.alternet.org/trump-execut...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

My congress person actually showed up to something. Its a chili cookoff and not a town hall, but I guess that’s something

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Scrolling just now got a Little Big song in my head m.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwT...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I do think the Democratic Party has a gerontocracy problem, but the media focus on Biden's age because of Jake Tapper's book tour always feels off given that the current president is also clearly sundowning to little media coverage. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Funny how the admin is always throwing out insane timelines like "we're going to code the entire government system from scratch in 2 weeks!". But asking businesses not to poison our literal source of life? Gotta extend it another couple years

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

Commentary by Dustin Pugel U. S. House is considering a plan that would take health coverage and food assistance away from more than 100,000 Kentuckians, all to offset a fraction of the cost of cutting taxes for America’s wealthiest people and corporations. kentuckylantern.com/2025/05/16/k...

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

Jim Henson left us 35 years ago today. I loved being on the Muppet Show!! Here’s a video of me with my buddies!

submitted 27 days ago • 419 comments

Yeah, take that, you freeloading newborns.

submitted 36 days ago • 58 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 46 days ago • 313 comments

If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...

submitted 53 days ago • 17 comments

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

submitted 54 days ago • 335 comments

Milestone release of #rstats rms package is now on CRAN with a full suite of survival analysis fitting, validation, and graphical display functions based on semiparametric models, generalizing the Cox PH model to a spectrum of models including accelerated failure time. hbiostat.org/r/rms #StatsSky

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

submitted 67 days ago • 48 comments

If you're in the DMV and you want to raise a glass to a great the AFI Silver in Silver Spring is showing Top Secret! for like a week with some truly unsettling timing.

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

“DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit,” Jonathan Chait writes. Are the deficit-reduction efforts just a pretext for ideological warfare? theatln.tc/0zdiT2Hb

submitted 73 days ago • 152 comments

if Hegseth and others won't resign, impeach them House Dems should file impeachment resolutions today

submitted 79 days ago • 18 comments

Facts: Elon Musk is not in the cabinet. Elon Musk is not a department head. Elon Musk was not confirmed by the Senate. “DOGE” is not a real department. “DOGE” was never created by Congress. “DOGE” is acting outside all legal authority. “DOGE” is fake — and 100% CORRUPT.

submitted 79 days ago • 118 comments

“I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the U.S. would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions.”

submitted 79 days ago • 585 comments

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

submitted 82 days ago • 222 comments

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

submitted 84 days ago • 1442 comments

WIRED: “It’s a heist — real federal auditors are horrified by DOGE… DOGE has posted some of its ‘findings’ on its website, many of which have been revealed to be errors.” www.wired.com/story/federa...

submitted 85 days ago • 348 comments

Yes, below. (I am a PhD, not an MD). This work does not get done anywhere else. It's not financially lucrative enough. We invest in pediatric cancer research as a society because that work does not get done otherwise. Hard impacts to MDs especially: bench research can't be done in private practice

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

I can't bring myself to make flippant remarks about getting what you voted for and dismantling of NOAA. Tornados are terrifying. Hurricanes that spin up from a Cat 1 to a 5 in 2 hours are nightmares. We need to be able to accurately predict these. We need to talk about why they're getting worse.

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

submitted 89 days ago • 366 comments

With the House in recess and so much to discuss, House Republicans have plenty of time for town halls - but they’d rather ignore their constituents. Demand they hold town halls!

submitted 91 days ago • 202 comments

Maybe it's just the algoritm, but at this moment, the only people I see standing up for democracy are excommunicated Republicans and a few, mostly female, democrates of color. With this guy at the for front. Maybe it's time for a new party, with actual principles.

submitted 91 days ago • 92 comments

For the democrats saying “we can’t let the govt shut down” you’ve already lost. It’s not on you. Republicans control everything, didn’t come to you for anything except your vote. Where else can you force changes? You can’t… you’re a willing participant in Republican majority

submitted 91 days ago • 653 comments

House Democrats are very clear: We’re asking Senate Democrats to vote no on this CR, which is not clean.

submitted 92 days ago • 276 comments