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Okay, fine. Real estate broker by day. Writer, professional jazz double bass player all other times. Very left leaning. Ally. Follows You
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This is a good idea.

To turn it off!

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social hey, sincere question. Why are you still on Musk's platform?

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

Heya! @schiff.senate.gov, constituent here. Please drop whatever else you are doing and evict Musk and his goons from Treasury IT systems. Our data is not safe in his hands (not to mention this whole thing seems highly illegal).

In court just now, the states are introducing @PressSec tweet saying the funding freeze is still active as evidence that their lawsuit should continue.

BREAKING: An aircraft crash in the Reagan National Airport area prompted a ground stop and forced the Arlington, Virginia, airport to close on Wednesday night, officials said.

Haircut.

Something that happened the other day reminded me of a New Yorker essay from 2019, so I reread it, which prompted me to track down a copy of The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt. Astonishing and timely book. It should be more widely read.

#MedSky The EMA, the #regulatory equivalent to FDA for the European Union, has moved from Twitter to BlueSky: @ema.europa.eu. They’re a great source of info on #publichealth, #drugdevelopment, & more.

So if TFG is going to withhold disaster relief, why, exactly, are we paying federal taxes?

Just posting this declassified 1944 OSS manual on civilian sabotage of fascist states for no reason. www.cia.gov/static/5c875...

We are not economists… but how does repealing EO’s that lower prices make things cheaper? 🫤

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

Just got a new iPad. On what planet is this a good user interface?

Weird how no one stormed the Capitol today.

can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke

New haircut, who dis?

Looks like 2025 is shaping up to be a banger.

I quite like this. Pro shot from the pit for 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. And... no bass face!

What the fuck is happening in South Korea? Can someone explain it like I'm 5?

🚨 Fake Account Alert: @rachelvindman.bsky.social is an imposter. Lots of people are following it too. Rachel Vindman’s real account is @natsechobbyist.bsky.social

Since no one will actually read this, just going to toss out an amusing truth bomb my son dropped on me at dinner last night. Apparently my autism is incredibly obvious if you know what to look for.