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Because there seem to be some indignant folks suggesting that it is standard practice for a CEO to demand daily performance updates or else fire you, a few observations from a guy who spent 20 years in the private sector 16 as CEO and the last 6 in government…

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Time to get to know how we know about sodium channels, a very helpful tool to control pain. Hint: It was a massive, diverse, collective endeavor supported by federal investment in research institutions. And scorpions and spiders whose venoms do all sorts of weird shit to those channels. 🧪

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Ducky is the barista of the Famous Weird Coffee Shop and the world needs him.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Quick intro to Sydette's amazing "Baby has hat" from a talk she did in 2018!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 7 days ago • 839 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 9 days ago • 2400 comments

They let a transsexual clap back. Tired of seeing people talk ABOUT us, instead of WITH us. In today's Providence Journal (paywall of course 🥴). www.providencejournal.com/story/opinio...

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

There have been a lot of questions about measles in the face of the TX outbreak, and I haven’t been able to answer them all, so here is a FAQ. Please note that I’m not a physician and posting things on social media makes it difficult to express nuance, so I urge you to seek multiple sources.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Happy birthday to @authormsbev.bsky.social Thank you for all the books, especially the ones where the villain is hoisted by their own petard and dies of their own stupidity. 💕💕

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

As the Congressman representing the district once represented by Henry Hyde, I’m proud of my friends in DuPage County for making this change. A few quick thoughts: chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Powerful centrists with milquetoast politics are once again demanding we have empathy for people who would destroy us. Our latest is a must-read from @www.bugbeardispatch.com on the laundering of Christian nationalism in the Trump 2.0 era.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

One of my favorite things I've written in some time. I talked to a fellow hopeless person yesterday, and I think we helped each other. (It's short. You can work it in.) anamariecox.substack.com/p/the-weight...

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Hi! Follow along for the adventures of nesting and resting endangered Great Lakes Piping Plovers on Chicago's shoreline. 📸: Tamima Itani (Imani, Chicago, May 2023)

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

As an epidemiologist I am horrified. This white man, who is not a scientist nor a physician, is saying on national television that Black people should not be vaccinated due to a racist myth that only OUR immune systems don’t need them. If he is confirmed, our people will die of preventable diseases

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

By popular request! Here's the link to all the books recommended and discussed during our recent Confort Reads virtual event w/ @tkingfisher.com @older.bsky.social & @marthawells.com (+ KJ Charles was there in spirit!) bookshop.org/lists/comfort-reads-loyalty-bookstores

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Help me identify this WWII soldier for a story I'm writing. My deadline is Feb. 14. The portrait was made between 1943 & 1945 in Pittsburgh's Hill District. He has a rifle medal on his chest, Service Forces patch & a Corps of Engineers insignia on his hat. Please repost & help me ID him. 🗃️

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 28 days ago • 3791 comments

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & distro freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

submitted 29 days ago • 108 comments

FIRED From The Washington Post by Brian Broome substack.com/inbox/post/1...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Coming into Monday morning, here's what we know about ICE's actions in Chicago yesterday: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... yes there are six bylines because nearly the entire @chicago.suntimes.com newsroom is working on this. We'll have more updates today — stay tuned.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

The feet of the American coot are amazing: - the lobes or 'wings' act like a duck's 'palmate foot' for paddling, but also fold backwards as the foot moves forward to allow for rapid wading. - The increased cross-sectional area lets them run across the surface of water to reach take-off speeds.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Looking around at the US in this moment, I feel a mixture of nausea + rage. Nausea, for obvious reasons. Rage? Rage because for decades now, I've been trying to warn folks. As a #Homeschooled little girl, I had a front row seat to this nonsense. 🧵1/16

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

submitted 34 days ago • 187 comments

friends, in the northern hemisphere we have now done the darkest eight weeks of the year. the next 44 weeks are all lighter than this. (please: no replies to this pointing out other stuff that is still bad. I'll just block. we must be allowed to rejoice in at least the return of the sun.)

submitted 38 days ago • 30 comments

I'm very happy to share the cover illustration I did for 'To Clutch A Razor' by @veronicaroth.bsky.social , #2 of the Curse Bearer series (and a sequel to When Among Crows), for @torbooks.bsky.social ⚔️

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

Allies are assets, you idiots, a key pillar of American power. There’s no possible negotiation aided by these threats that will yield more for the US than the good relationships do. And no possible military action, no matter how smooth, that would leave the US in a stronger international position.

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

submitted 41 days ago • 267 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 43 days ago • 379 comments

if anyone is looking for 72 pounds of love in their life, please consider Coffee — who is up for adoption at PAWS now. I fostered him for a few weeks and can confirm he is the sweetest little handful that you will ever meet. please give him a forever home!

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires. Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com

submitted 46 days ago • 172 comments

Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me #Archaeology

submitted 46 days ago • 33 comments

Friday night after close of business: Cook County chief judge announces steps to discipline a recently elected judge for sharing a racist image www.injusticewatch.org/judges/judic...

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

What do you do when you're trapped in a self-driving car and no help is coming? What is the meaning of autonomy? clarkesworldmagazine.com/elison_01_25/

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk teamed up with AfD leader Alice Weidel to amplify a deranged lie about Adolf Hitler.

submitted 47 days ago • 29 comments

Bird deaths at McCormick during fall migration: 2022 - 771 2023 - 1,280 2024 - 18 All it takes is stickers.

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

Editors, producers, reporters: we've got SIX open positions at @propublica.org — take a peek, some have fast-approaching application deadlines: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g...

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

📣 Attention Chicago renters 📣 We’re hosting workshops over the next two months to teach you how to research building code violations and landlords using public records. Registration is required! https://buff.ly/4a51ZLY

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Thank you, @neilsteinberg.bsky.social. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

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