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Malevolently curious, leans nerd, passionate for films and books, thinks we have about 15 years left tops...
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Trump sends 5,000 military to invade & occupy LA, and NYT headline is literal false-equivalency he-said-she-said.

The Canadian equivalent of the NIH should consider funding a bunch of studies monitoring what happens with vaccine-preventable diseases in Canada and the US over the next decade. Because a real-world laboratory is being created.

Very courageous. Bill Cassidy betrayed his oath as a physician and put the health of the nation in jeopardy because he was afraid of a primary. That will be his legacy.

To remove vaccines from ACIP guidelines, which seems to be the end goal here, is effectively a ban. If a vaccine is not recommended, Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance can refuse to cover it. Few people can afford to pay for the cost out of pocket. RFK Jr's end game is to ban vaccines!!!

An Australian journalist was shot with what’s been reported as a rubber bullet while covering immigration protests in LA. 9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

I remember at the start of the year cancelling a trip to the US as the vibe was off...they are for FUN shooting journalists...and can probably see they are Aussies

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

Here we go again. Just like in 2020 right-wingers will be posting old videos or videos from other countries claiming it was today in the US. All for clicks and to fan the flames of division and hatred. It’s part of their standard playbook.

Facts: - Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance. - Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.

@greatdismal.bsky.social pattern recognition but depressing apple.news/ABMBuyIefTNq...

Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

If you smell smoke, maybe it’s the Reichstag

Congratulation to all of the winners and finalists of the Nebula Awards! locusmag.com/2025/06...

Note that Congress expanded Posse Comitatus—the law limiting federal armed forces from helping civilian law enforcement actions—to include Space Force, the US Navy, and the Marine Corps in 2021. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) will livestream the 60th Annual Nebula Awards® tonight – Saturday, June 7, at 6:00 p.m. PDT. The ceremony will be emceed by toastmaster Erin Roberts. www.youtube.com/watc...

The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.

The perfect metaphor for this moment doesn’t exi…

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

"How valuable is that gas off the coast of WA? To Woodside’s foreign partners – BP, Shell & Chevron – hugely so. To us, not so much. The foreign companies pay a fraction of their earnings in royalties. They pay as little as possible in company tax & next to nothing in PRRT. @rossgittins.bsky.social

"Confected outrage at the very wealthy paying slightly more tax is misguided and misdirected." Great piece on proposed super changes by @gemkillen.bsky.social womensagenda.com.au/latest/dont-...

Ukraine's security services says they have destroyed 34 per cent of Russia's air missile carriers with a bold drone attack. Here's what we know.

Hard to keep track of all the war crimes...

just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 is NYT’s euphemism for crimes against humanity.”

HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

It took the Nazis 10 years to get to the holocaust phase, that’s 10 years Germans believed they’d get another election or that maybe it won’t be so bad. That’s where the majority of the US is right now.

"A government does not announce that they have become fascist, they announce that anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

So when Zuck sings a song to his wife while building a bunker in Hawaii for end times...this is what he is really doing...he does not care about teen girls on Instagram and certainly is OK with doing business with known sociopath Palmer..

90% of the drop in emissions since 2005 is from counting "land use" (ie the big land clearing that happened in 2005). If you just count actual emissions, we're only 2.8% lower than in 2005

Same energy

#TACO 🌮

Beyond parody.

He HATES it. 🌮 😂👌

"Scientific insiders." You mean...scientists? The people who do science and understand it? I'm not saying they're beyond suspicion, but when I look at the US over the past 20 years, I do not have the impression that our major problem is that _scientists_ have too much power.

RFK Jr. is quite possibly the most dangerous man on the planet. And there is a lot of competition for that spot.