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To: Mayor Harrell Re: Lake Washington Blvd

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What an amazing time to be a biomedical scientist. www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Much appreciate the spotlight on our (‪@adelmanlab.bsky.social‬) paper about INT depletion/dsRNA-induced stress responses by @hanzlikovalab.bsky.social Amazing to see the finding being placed in perspective of the big picture of neurodevelopmental diseases and therapeutic targets 🙏 #RNABiology

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San Francisco has the best weather in America and it’s not close.

submitted 18 hours ago • 63 comments

Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained. “They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”

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Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

submitted 11 hours ago • 339 comments

Our effort to try to do something for [cystic fibrosis (CF)] started as a basic science enterprise. That was a hard slog back in the 1980s. Nobody would have supported except NIH. Now, 30 years after that discovery, young people with CF get to plan for retirement instead of an early funeral.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Which metro area has a GDP of $38 billion and which has a GDP of $1 trillion?

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

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FDA blocks sending "US cells" to "hostile countries" for use in FDA approved clinical trials, mainly on CAR-T. Say it "may have exposed Americans' sensitive genetic data to misuse by foreign govts, including adversaries." What harm could China do w/"US cells"? pharmaphorum.com/news/fda-blo...

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Mahmoud Khalil has been released after being held as a political prisoner for over 3 months!!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

submitted 10 hours ago • 230 comments

The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Another outdoor gear company (Ultimate Direction) giving the heads up that they have to raise prices 25% because of tariffs (remember those?)

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT

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Arizona’s public lands are unmatched—deserts, forests, mountains, canyons. They belong to all of us. But Republicans want to sell them off to private buyers to fund tax breaks for Trump’s billionaire buddies. We can’t let that happen. www.newsweek.com/map-shows-wh...

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

It's a joke that Alex Garland's "Civil War" pits California and Texas against a Trump stand-in, but given the way I've seen east coast folk talk about Mike Lee's bill to plunder the entire American west, it does seem that Lee & the Admin is facing opposition from every mountain west constituency

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BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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That is a shocking drop, and if it's in any way indicative of drops in other types of activity, it represents a massive impediment to the very function of LA—or any city. Fundamentally, the power of a city arises from people getting out and doing, whether it's work, socializing, or anything else.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

submitted 14 hours ago • 72 comments

Important to point out: this deployment isn’t just unnecessary, it’s expensive. That’s the equivalent of funding 50 NIH R01 grants for cancer, Alzheimer’s, or pain research.🧐 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

submitted 15 hours ago • 95 comments

It's really easy to be negative about social media - the platforms deserve every bit of criticism they get - but I've met so many truly lovely, wonderful, interesting, mind-expanding people through Twitter, Instagram, and now Bluesky.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Also the thing about quoting Lyman Stone as a "pro-natalist" is he's on record saying he'd prefer the world end in nuclear conflagration if the alternative is China winning a war over Taiwan, so his promotion of the well being of families comes with some thermonuclear caveats.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Leading economists argue that Zohran Mamdani's mayoral platform is a bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City’s most urgent challenges—above all, the cost of living.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

One of many reasons the “we need to sell federal lands to improve home affordability” gambit is failing politically is that there’s already 50% tariffs on steel and the Trump admin is prepping tariffs on lumber too—it’s clear they don’t actually care about construction costs!

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

Worry about falling birthrates invariably fails to acknowledge the single greatest decline (drastic reduction in teen pregnancy rates) or make the case for how to boost birthrates beyond reproductive coercion. We can & should ease burdens of choosing to parent w/o expectation of birthrate increase.

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Harry Enten: "I think we can say Donald Trump has lost the political battle when it comes to what has happened in Los Angeles. Trump's net approval rating on LA - way, way underwater at -15 points... this is happening on what should be on Donald Trump's best issue ... he's losing on his core issue"

submitted 19 hours ago • 284 comments

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

submitted 20 hours ago • 50 comments

June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. @edhawkins.org

submitted 20 hours ago • 33 comments

If he wins, people are not prepared for just how unpopular Andrew Cuomo will be and how quickly it will happen. There's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse, not among the billionaire class, but among regular people who weren't paying attention. Kinda like what happened with Trump!

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

"By formalizing political control over agency science, the EO institutionalizes a 'doubt science' approach to shaping policy." Important new op-ed in @science.org from @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social and @progressivereform.bsky.social schola Wendy Wagner www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Failing and flailing lame duck

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ENTEN: “.. Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue.” @cnn.com

submitted 20 hours ago • 76 comments

It's not even THAT HOT, you spoiled beast

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Thank you, Justice Jackson. Textualists claim their methodology constrains them. But it doesn't meaningfully do so.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Not the only thing to bear in mind here but endorsing a known sexual harasser sends an awful message to your own staff and everyone else who works in Congress and in the party.

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The Economist has a new state-by-state estimate of Trump’s approval out this week (built in small part on a MRP model I wrote while I worked there). Trump is underwater in 15 states he won in 2024, including: WI -8 MI -8 PA -7 NV -5 GA -4 NC -4 AZ -4 www.economist.com/interactive/...

submitted 20 hours ago • 61 comments

Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars. I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars. drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...

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Steve Woloshin has for years taught journalists how to read and interpret scientific studies accurately. Ironic to see one of his own papers is mis-cited and misrepresented in the MAHA report on the health of children. www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/m...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The Democratic Party is in open warfare against its own relevance and yet every day we're fed a stream of columns and podcasts about how it's really the fault of trans people and immigrants

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I have a letter to the editor in today's @wsj.com about how the collusive lawsuit DOJ filed (and quickly settled) in Texas effectively blocking in-state tuition benefits for Dreamers is even more disturbing than the WSJ Editorial Board already made it out to be: www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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The growing politicization of vaccines isn't going to serve the United States well, six former #ACIP chairs warn in an opinion piece in @statnews.com. The result will be more illness and deaths from preventable diseases & an erosion of #pandemic preparedness. www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/a...

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Nicole Verdun, director of the office that reviews cell and gene therapies at the Food and Drug Administration, and her deputy Rachael Anatol have been placed on administrative leave and escorted out of the agency. www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/t...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

I’m thrilled to have been selected as an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, along with my wonderful #PMB colleague @doctheagrif.bsky.social Excited for what’s to come - we’re just getting started! 🚀 @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucd-physiology.bsky.social health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

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Democratic voters, 18-39 Biggest gap between young Dems' prioritization of an issue and their belief that the party is also prioritizing it: Limiting money in politics: +18 Paid family leave: +18 Affordable child care: +17 Higher taxes on the rich: +17 Universal health care: +15

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