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dr-frogbat.bsky.social
Dad, scientist, nut. Navigating an increasingly crazy world and trying to leave it better than I found it.
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"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 3 days ago • 465 comments

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

One month in, and things are bleak. But it does seem personal resistance matters. MAGA voters didn't want tariffs and DOGE. They wanted "cat ladies" to give up and marry some MAGA douche. Not giving them the satisfaction isn't just fun. It's strategic. www.salon.com/2025/02/20/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 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 3 days ago • 845 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

This is who veterans call for support when the mental scars of their service are too much to bear alone. It is the bare minimum we should be doing for those who serve. This is cruel, callous, unpatriotic, dishonorable, and disloyal.

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I don’t agree with everything Sabine Hossenfelder says, but she’s smart, honest and calling out a real problem. I have heard similar ideas, which is one reason I’m moving into private industry. The work is less stable, but the moral compromises are different at least. 1/ youtu.be/shFUDPqVmTg?...

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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Wow.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Elon Musk doesn't read as Christian (though I get into why that's misleading). But make no mistake: his rampage through the federal government is helping pave the way for a Christian nationalist takeover. www.salon.com/2025/02/14/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

They are systematically removing any checks on their power or any ability to prove wrongdoing. This is not how good people behave.

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New: @aoc.bsky.social tells me that Democrats shouldn't bail out Republicans on a government shutdown without "incredibly substantial" concessions. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

This weekend I've decided to finally read Balaji Srinivasan's terrible fucking book, "The Network State." I've put this off for as long as I possibly could. Here goes. thenetworkstate.com/book/tns.pdf

submitted 14 days ago • 108 comments

⚠️💪 #February28 #Feb28Boycott #EconomicBlackout #EconomicBlackout2025 #BlackoutDay #NoSpendFriday #PowerToThePeople #Coup #Dictator #Trump 🤡 #DictatorTrump #DonaldTrump 🤡 #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #Fascist #Fascism #MAGA #MAGACultMorons #Oligarchy #Oligarch #Oligarchs 💪⚠️

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

“Extinction Burst” as applied to MAGA. This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one… (Part I)

submitted 12 days ago • 138 comments

If you’re a current/former US government employee or contractor in the cybersecurity space and want to chat securely, my Signal is couts.01

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments