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Eric Andre voice "Time to deliver a pizzaball(a)!"

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Trump military purge. Any Congressional Democrats telling themselves they can sit back and wait for Republicans to tank the midterms are delusional. We need full opposition mode, including supporting mass rallies and direct action. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

submitted 7 hours ago • 118 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

Disgusting. Warring for profit. Treating humans as disposable for money in war. Fuck this guy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

One of the best things about Penn State culture is the culture of giving. Right now, many undergraduates are involved in a philanthropic Dance Marathon (THON) to support pediatric cancer research and care. As funding from the federal government becomes stolen, this is increasing important.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

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Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Shooting ourselves in the foot again.

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White House: I DIDN’T GET WRECKED YOU GOT WRECKED

submitted 1 day ago • 285 comments

My favorite story of the week? My wife got a public shout out from her team. @alliemaria.bsky.social is as empathetic a teacher as I've ever seen. She cares so much for kids. Especially the underprivileged and those reluctant to try new things, like cabbage or beets.

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Coming soon, an executive order declaring that stock prices can legally only increase, and if they fall the FBI will investigate.

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Think we're going to get into social media quote graphics business. Everybody else just does this while we're cutting woodland creatures out of stock photos. Work smarter not harder.

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This is about as good a review as I’ve ever seen from a professional about how their occupation is covered. He doesn’t expect perfect realism, but he seems to think they got a whole lot right that’s important. www.vulture.com/article/is-t...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Trump take egg Trump crash plane Trump lose hockey Trump tank stocks

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I just need @jeremytache.bsky.social , @jessicasmetana.bsky.social and @mikeryanruiz.bsky.social to look at the Google image that popped up when searched for that StuGotz Hotline to call.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump take insulin

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Again I'm gonna need someone to explain to me why we need to pay federal taxes anymore. And if it's because of previous norms or laws (or whatever we used to pretend mattered that no longer does) I think we're wayyyy past that

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

i have nothing in common with a fascist and neither should anyone else. don't let em fool you

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If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

literally i think they think bird flu is like chicken covid and most of the animals get a cold and then a couple die and most get better and not like "2/3rds of the birds who get infected die of it" which is what bird flu is actually like

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

I need to see Reacher beat the shit out of corrupt assholes like never before.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1521 comments

Sadly, U.S. democracy has been rotting from the inside for decades and was hollowed out long before this latest batch of malevolent thugs and mental midgets came along. Biggest failure, IMO, was conflating democracy with capitalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A teacher emailed me & said "My scientist didn't reply to me. My scientists ALWAYS reply to me! What the heck!". I was like "Well. Science is kinda crumbling. Friends/colleagues are losing their jobs or at least funding, & some are being told to cease all outside communications". She hadn't heard.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

amazon apparently assuming i would not scroll through their barely-functional website to individually download 150+ ebooks: lol. lmao. two things i love are spite and procrastination and this is both

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 4 days ago • 454 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 5 days ago • 609 comments

I got that dog in me (I’m scared of the doorbell)

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

"The Movement understood that victory consisted not in a law or a speech or a ruling, but a durable change in the behavior of the mass of people.” 🪧✊🏻🧱 @liberalcurrents.com

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

Eric Andre voice "Time to deliver a pizzaball(a)!"

Trump military purge. Any Congressional Democrats telling themselves they can sit back and wait for Republicans to tank the midterms are delusional. We need full opposition mode, including supporting mass rallies and direct action. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

Disgusting. Warring for profit. Treating humans as disposable for money in war. Fuck this guy.

One of the best things about Penn State culture is the culture of giving. Right now, many undergraduates are involved in a philanthropic Dance Marathon (THON) to support pediatric cancer research and care. As funding from the federal government becomes stolen, this is increasing important.

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

Shooting ourselves in the foot again.

White House: I DIDN’T GET WRECKED YOU GOT WRECKED

My favorite story of the week? My wife got a public shout out from her team. @alliemaria.bsky.social is as empathetic a teacher as I've ever seen. She cares so much for kids. Especially the underprivileged and those reluctant to try new things, like cabbage or beets.

Coming soon, an executive order declaring that stock prices can legally only increase, and if they fall the FBI will investigate.

Think we're going to get into social media quote graphics business. Everybody else just does this while we're cutting woodland creatures out of stock photos. Work smarter not harder.

This is about as good a review as I’ve ever seen from a professional about how their occupation is covered. He doesn’t expect perfect realism, but he seems to think they got a whole lot right that’s important. www.vulture.com/article/is-t...

Trump take egg Trump crash plane Trump lose hockey Trump tank stocks

I just need @jeremytache.bsky.social , @jessicasmetana.bsky.social and @mikeryanruiz.bsky.social to look at the Google image that popped up when searched for that StuGotz Hotline to call.

Trump take insulin

Again I'm gonna need someone to explain to me why we need to pay federal taxes anymore. And if it's because of previous norms or laws (or whatever we used to pretend mattered that no longer does) I think we're wayyyy past that

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

i have nothing in common with a fascist and neither should anyone else. don't let em fool you

If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.

literally i think they think bird flu is like chicken covid and most of the animals get a cold and then a couple die and most get better and not like "2/3rds of the birds who get infected die of it" which is what bird flu is actually like

I need to see Reacher beat the shit out of corrupt assholes like never before.

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

Sadly, U.S. democracy has been rotting from the inside for decades and was hollowed out long before this latest batch of malevolent thugs and mental midgets came along. Biggest failure, IMO, was conflating democracy with capitalism.

A teacher emailed me & said "My scientist didn't reply to me. My scientists ALWAYS reply to me! What the heck!". I was like "Well. Science is kinda crumbling. Friends/colleagues are losing their jobs or at least funding, & some are being told to cease all outside communications". She hadn't heard.

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

amazon apparently assuming i would not scroll through their barely-functional website to individually download 150+ ebooks: lol. lmao. two things i love are spite and procrastination and this is both

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

I got that dog in me (I’m scared of the doorbell)

"The Movement understood that victory consisted not in a law or a speech or a ruling, but a durable change in the behavior of the mass of people.” 🪧✊🏻🧱 @liberalcurrents.com

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

Favorite paragraph from this: