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EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

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Trump administration deems pandemic preparedness "unsafe for Americans".

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The AQI in Chicago was 160 this AM because of the Canadian wildfires so we wore masks on our morning walk and some dude in a pickup truck heckled us screaming on a quiet side street “I see the coronavirus! I see the coronavirus!” in case you’re keeping score at home of how broken society is.

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"Wealthy freeloaders" -- is that a term that can take off?

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Vinay Prasad didn’t know that all federally-funded research has to be open access. This has been a legal requirement for years.

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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John Dewey said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy, and what we are suffering from today is not democracy but all the impediments and obstacles to it—and all the attacks on it.

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You ever wonder what life would be like if you didn’t overthink everything? I think about it all the time

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Trump's head of FEMA doesn't know the US has a hurricane season?!

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

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Please post this far and wide. People need to know the truth about where their taxes go and who is really taking their hard earned money!!

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Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

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Science denying know-nothing GOPers are trying (and in some cases succeeding) to ban fluoride in water based on anti-science BS. A new study shows a nationwide ban would bring a 7.5% increase in tooth decay and cost almost 10 billion dollars over five years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Today's blog post: More LLM AI follies, like immediate self-contradiction on basic facts, Microsoft borking its own security, Kennedy's MAHA report citing nonexistent studies, and a benchmark for showing how LLMs descend over time into utter madness. www.someweekendreading.blog/llm-ai-still...

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i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

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Memorial Day blog post: Some complicated feelings about the history of Memorial Day, war memorials in general, Hilton's _Lost Horizon_, and Trump's screed. www.someweekendreading.blog/memorial-day...

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Trump’s 2025 pardons so far, by the numbers: Convicted of: – Fraud: 24 – Tax Evasion: 7 – Illegal Campaign Donations: 4 – Political Corruption & Bribery: 8 – Insurrection: 1,500+ A reminder of why descriptive representation matters.

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RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist. That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations. How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔 www.notus.org/health-scien...

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HHS on Moderna: "The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public.” www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

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BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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There are few groups less capable of determining which academic programs are “worthy” than state lawmakers.

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Trump = Making COVID, measles, China and Russia great again.

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