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Nurse in a red state. Pro-science. Pro-kids. Anti-dipshits.
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Does it matter if the pilot has never landed an aircraft before?

The only upside I acknowledge is that we are helping the rest of the world appreciate democracy to the point of desiring to preserve it for themselves.

Thinking about how these same kinds of jerks tried to kill Galileo, for pretty much the same kinds of reasons.

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not the fiscally responsible party?

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

When these papers come my way, and they will in the semi-near future, I'm not signing shit.

Evergreen (unfortunately). psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-...

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

imagining time traveling to the early 00s and trying to explain to my precocious teen debater friends that the criticisms of the Nanny State that they engaged with so earnestly would culminate in armed officers making sure grown adults were using the right bathroom

This MF went from "everything will be cheaper" to "you will have some financial pain" to "your kids won't have toys for Christmas" to "I'm gonna have a birthday parade that it will cost millions" within 100 days

Remember the awesome COVID-19 dashboard Hopkins created and populated during the pandemic? They are back but this time tracking measles

Having taken care of previously healthy kids experiencing renal failure from unpasteurized products, I'll agree to disagree with Oster.

“Experts fear”? Experts know children will get measles and die without prevention, which is vaccination. Try this instad: “Children projected to die of measles because preventive medicine discouraged.” #vaccine #publichealth

Hats off to this crazy motherfucker, who did it for the love of science.

🧪In an immunotherapy clinical trial led by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, most cancer patients saw their tumors disappear and have not seen them recur. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/h...

This is why we do what we do.

Boo fucking hoo and also Thoughts & Tariffs.

Peter Thiel’s muse.

A standard poodle with an evil heart.

Trump's budget: We're cutting your health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researcher.

Now dig up the old Unqualified Reservations posts and prepare to gawk in horror that this lunatic ever actually got followers

Just finished the incredible book More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social - highly recommend to anyone trying to understand the intellectual origins and theological beliefs of the Thielians and Muskovites who have recently taken over politics. Tech utopianism has an ugly underside!

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

Holy shit, you guys. I just read Curtis Yarvin'a actual writing instead of a summary. The man is 51 years old, treated as an intellectual by the Sand Hill elite, and he writes like the most annoying freshman honors student who ever discovered Nietzsche from a comic book guide to philosophy.

ATLANTA (AP) - US reports 216 child flu deaths this season, the most in 15 years.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

We live in a free country (for now) so, as with all things, if you don't want your kid to brush with fluoride toothpaste/read a particular book/get a certain vaccine, then you can freely choose that? But don't force the rest of us to suffer because of your idiosyncrasies.

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

Anyway re this whole apparent shift in HHS's vaccine priorities to try to make universal vaccines using beta-propiolactone (BPL)... some wonky thoughts 🧵

RFK Jr: "Everyone should do their own research." NIH: "No, not you, scientists."

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

Every single person in this room, in his Cabinet, in Congress knows the entire thing is utter bullshit. They know it. And when it eventually comes tumbling down they'll scurry like rats and beg to be accepted back into normie-land. Nope.

As a woman who loves to lob sarcastic and wickedly funny insults, but who refrains from doing so due to societal expectations of femininity, this is my time. Every dingus has an opinion, I get to state mine, too!

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