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Postdoc @ Hess Lab @ UC Davis (PhD @ UCSB). Cow gut microbe engineering at the bench, science policy and politics away from it. Opinions my own. Bluesky’s first Anaerobic Fungi Guru. She/her. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū)
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CDFA would be the more ideal route
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Sadly, being kind to myself by itself does not keep me employed and my postdoc is not permanent.
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Politics doesn’t really select for people who take brave ideological stands. It selects for people who can win elections.
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Organized religions come in a very broad spectrum of authoritarianism even among denominations of the same religion; I suspect you’re thinking of very specific religions here.
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These are, notably, soldiers already stationed in California
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guess its official, welp
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Adam is a Republican
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If getting them out means giving them a smooth slide into a job that feeds their family, it still means one less ICE officer visiting mayhem on law-abiding immigrants.
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have they not seen videos of male gymnasts attempting to do female gymnast stuff
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She works at the American Enterprise Institute that’s why
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From the proclamation, it sounds like Trump intends to find National Guard troops from a different state with a friendly Republican governor and then federalize them and bring them to California @evanbernick.bsky.social
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And if any active duty guard or military are reading this, let me drop this right here
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We’ve done fine without conscription since Vietnam.
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Sure, but under a draft, there is still an “elite warrior culture” niche to be had: white cis(het) men who volunteered will get treated like elite warriors to lead the conscripts under their command.
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also these weirdos are in California and I hope they eat dirt for it eventually
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To me, this is a little sign they want to transition the military toward relying on the draft, despite the fact that it actually makes for a worse military.
America isn’t asking (well, forcing) anyone! They’re volunteering!
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that’s a bit more than 14 words