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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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no lies here.

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Our Ugandan friend reports that 600 people in her community have been cut off from HIV meds due to the USAID freeze. Multiply around the globe, and look forward to a new drug-resistant HIV. Trump and Musk are killers, but too dumb to know or too cold to care. STOP THEM.

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Once again, a fundamental reason why so many academics despise Trump, Vance, Musk & company is that we’ve all had our share of The Guy Who Didn’t Do The Reading But Demands to Be Heard

submitted 23 days ago • 118 comments

So we have had no hull loss airliner crashes in America from 2009 until yesterday. But DEI was the cause of the crash yesterday??? Based on that logic, I guess DEI was responsible for the safest period of civil aviation in US history.

submitted 23 days ago • 21 comments

It's happening here. Right now. How do we stop him?

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In a brazen & illegal move, the Trump admin is working to freeze federal funding passed into law. The law is the law—Trump must immediately reverse course, follow the requirements of the law, & ensure the nation’s spending laws are implemented as Congress intended.

submitted 26 days ago • 152 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 71 days ago • 173 comments

"Structural violence—another term for it is “social injustice”—is simply, at this point, the structure of American life, and it is treated as normal, whether we attach that particular name to it or not." Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker. Exactly.

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Bluesky is like a sports team that after several losing seasons, is suddenly a team on the rise... the best kind of team to follow. For the first time, I'm finding interest and some serendipity here. Let's go, Bluesky.

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Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

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