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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

Never change, Penzeys

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submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

submitted 10 days ago • 79 comments

can’t say tariffs are hurting the economy can’t measure the effect

submitted 14 days ago • 71 comments

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 402 comments

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 18 days ago • 263 comments

New Facebook/Instagram 2020 research results www.nber.org/papers/w33818: -"most presidential ads [on Facebook and Instagram] were targeted toward parties’ own supporters and that fundraising ads were most common" -no effects of removal on a variety of preregistered outcomes

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” Anatole France “Our nation's civil rights laws benefit all Americans, not just a select few." — Harmeet Dhillon

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Texas Bans Being Different Around Children theonion.com/texas-b...

submitted 20 days ago • 171 comments

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...

submitted 21 days ago • 363 comments

I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter.

submitted 22 days ago • 167 comments

this is incredibly embarrassing

submitted 24 days ago • 513 comments

Earth, Wind & Friar

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

The CEO of Suntory, a top-five beverage-alcohol conglomerate globally, said something similar last month. Not quite as explicit, but same sentiment. If firms can't rely on the US government to uphold its end of bargains, why wouldn't they look elsewhere to do business?

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal. Then she fired that lawyer.

submitted 25 days ago • 291 comments

Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

submitted 26 days ago • 98 comments

I’m sorry, what now?

submitted 25 days ago • 85 comments

submitted 28 days ago • 147 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 28 days ago • 1398 comments

It sounds like the US government is ending collection of data about sea ice. nsidc.org/data/user-re...

submitted 29 days ago • 68 comments

Deeply saddened that the ENTIRE TEAM at NCI PDQ Cancer Information has been eliminated. Our evidence-based summaries were updated throughout the year with the latest research and supported informed decision making between clinicians & patients with cancer across the US. 🇺🇸

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

submitted 30 days ago • 739 comments

Great article that encapsulates everything wrong or stupid about Trump's tariffs. This excerpt in particular drills down into the inevitable, catastrophic results of his policies. Worth the read.

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 30 days ago • 89 comments

Fascinating. I'd LOVE to see the flight manifest for Flight 6122 was. That's the third flight, which the government claims had only people with final orders of removal, not anyone subject to the Alien Enemies Act. With this information, we could actually find out whether they are telling the truth.

submitted 32 days ago • 19 comments

During the Second World War, Veronica Foster became famous as Ronnie The Bren Gun Girl. Her image was used to encourage women to work in factories to support the war effort. She also inspired the creation of the American Rosie the Riveter. This is her story. 🧵1/10

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

submitted 33 days ago • 181 comments

Oh wow. Note: This response (below, which is real) to Trump’s tweet depicting himself as pope is from the New York State Catholic Bishops, who represent the collective bishops of the state. Among them is Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who Trump appointed to his new religious liberty commission this week.

submitted 34 days ago • 514 comments

From a hydrologic risk perspective, these new mass cuts at USGS would further compound broadening NOAA National Weather Service personnel/capability losses when it comes to quantifying and predicting real-time flood risk (among other things).

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Honestly this is just incredible content.

submitted 35 days ago • 332 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 36 days ago • 552 comments

RFK during Wednesday's cabinet meeting: "During the Biden administration HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children, 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden admin.”

submitted 36 days ago • 338 comments

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 36 days ago • 779 comments

1/ OK, kids, let's do some math. Here Bondi claims 3,400 kilos of fentanyl have been seized in Trump's first 100 days. That's great. The more fentanyl getting seized the better. But Republicans weren't celebrating this when Biden was president.

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

Trump: "Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30"

submitted 36 days ago • 172 comments

Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus

submitted 37 days ago • 79 comments

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 37 days ago • 517 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 37 days ago • 975 comments

It's pretty funny that Trump has engineered a geo-political game of chicken between two societies - the US and China - where the winner will be the society most willing to withstand economic pain and inconveience in furtherance of some future national collective goal. Not really a US strong suit!

submitted 37 days ago • 299 comments