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Meteorologist | TTU PhD Candidate | Predictability and Sensitivity | Moody Storm Pictures | Prog Rock
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This is what "anti-DEI" means to the Trump administration. It's not "some corporate DEI measures are pointless or counterproductive," it's "women and people of color are presumptively unqualified for important government jobs"

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Obviously Biden was too old but the idea that the only possible explanation for saying something nonsensical while speaking extemporaneously in public is “dementia” clearly indicates you have never spoken extemporaneously in public. Record yourself speaking for an hour and see if you flub anything

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 4 days ago • 4948 comments

RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

I hate that Brooks and others like him have positioned themselves to be heroes when they finally speak what they knew to be true all along about Trump and his political movement. We are forced to applaud their stating of the completely obvious because we need them on our side, unfortunately.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Fake-populist reactionaries are forever demanding that broad political coalitions that include advocates somehow force those advocates to shut up, supposedly in the name of maintaining a broad political coalition

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.

submitted 6 days ago • 193 comments

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

submitted 6 days ago • 405 comments

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

submitted 17 days ago • 355 comments

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

submitted 19 days ago • 112 comments

If you’re a hack for whom intellectual honesty and consistency are alien concepts, life is just full of these little puzzles.

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

insane how this article just takes all of trump's bullshit legal justifications for this bribery at face value

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

One way you can tell all the Claudine Gay stuff was racism is because Monica Crowley actually did plagiarize her Columbia dissertation and was allowed to amend it without consequence. Conservatives do not care about plagiarism unless it can be deployed against their enemies. (Also why they love AI.)

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

Absolutely begging libs to stop spreading these absurd "ICE agents are really militia members" conspiracy theories. It makes you look profoundly stupid, *and* it's a really great way to avoid confronting the reality of American policing. This is what cops are. This is what cops do. Accept it.

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

"So this is a plea to those Democrats: Please rethink your position. Crypto isn’t a legitimate industry. Any vote that further empowers that industry is a vote for more and bigger corruption, even if you personally aren’t corrupt. Just say no to the scam."

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

submitted 27 days ago • 284 comments

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

submitted 29 days ago • 658 comments

The dirty little secret of the Very Smart Boys running big chunks of the Democratic Party is that they have no problem with race science and fascism. They do not understand why Marc Andreessen is more objectionable than Mitt Romney

submitted 29 days ago • 49 comments

Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

submitted 30 days ago • 166 comments

About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments