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Biologist, nonprofit CEO (opinions mine), fair-weather farmer. Progressive christian. Probably a lot older than you are. Vote blue. Pray without words. It's the Gulf of Mexico, stupid. Almost Heaven, Durham County, NC.
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Biden dropped the H5N1 ball & Trump won't be picking it up. Biden failed by pretending Covid was over. Biden didn't do ring vaccination for H5N1, he didn't invest funds in testing, & he didn't mandate disposal of dead animals. No public health campaign, no #CleanAir mandate or masks.

Jaz and I had the Sowell Trail all to ourselves this morning.

Are you a Starlink subscriber b/c cable & fiber are unavailable & DSL sucks? Starlink works, but slows to a crawl during peak hours or storms, and has frequent price increases. Plus that whole bankrolling-a-fascist thing. We switched to Verizon wireless internet. Half the price, just as fast.

He's a DEI hire: Discrimination, Egotism, and Ineptness

Just 🛑 “there is no reason why any country or business or person who seeks to support democracy, the international order, a humane social order, or a society in which the average person has a fair shot at a decent life, should do business with any of Musk's businesses.” @djrothkopf.bsky.social

Jeezus.

The bio-doc, What Happened, Miss Simone?, is a must-see. At one and the same time heartbreaking and uplifting, plus a great introduction to her music. She was a force of nature, and perhaps the single greatest gift North Carolina has given the world.

A lot of us know and love someone with breast cancer. A lot of us have had breast cancer! So when Republicans cut Medicaid and breast cancer treatment, they’re hurting you or someone you love. That could be a death sentence—all so Republicans can fatten their wallets. #DontCutMyMedicaid

I've yet to see any talking heads point out that today's deep slumps in both the NASDAQ and Dow Jones indexes have wiped out all of the irrationally exuberant gains they've accumulated since the mango moron's inauguration. From here on, ongoing market collapse will be pure bloodletting.

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old coder Musk has stealing our private information and infiltrating our government systems, is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a KGB spy. This kid has just been named a senior advisor to the State Department and DHS.

Decades of effort getting trans folks fully accepted into and cherished by the LGB community, wiped out with one tap of the Delete key. VIchy.

After my email to Capital One's CEO, I received a call from CO's "Customer Complaint" rep. He confirmed there is zero anyone can do about CO's fraud s/w declining my debit-card Apple purchase. I corrected him saying I can and am doing something: closing my account. He hung up on me. FU Capital One

Tillis doesn't give a shit.

Dow Jones futures are cratering this morning. What did the mango moron say this time?

We know. The trainees know. We can read. The silence from our PIs, from our programs, from our institutions... It does not help. We feel insane, like we are freaking out for no reason. The core idea of science is confronting reality, facing the truth of the data. Please say it out loud. 🧪

Life scientists and supporters: The Coalition for Life Sciences is here! Many of our professional societies work together through the CLS to advocate for science and now their work is even more important. Follow them!! @c4lifesciences.bsky.social www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

Twitter has become an organized criminal conspiracy headed by musk and his consigliere, yaccarino. And, sad to say, anyone still using it (like too many of my friends) is enabling their crime spree.

HPAI A(H5N1) virus was detected in two indoor domestic cats with respiratory and neurologic illness that lived in homes of dairy workers but had no known direct exposure to HPAI A(H5N1)–affected farms. Delayed MMWR on cat transmission of #H5H1 B3.13 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

I've been a union supporter all my life. But it pains me to say the @teamsters.bsky.social are dead to me until they kick O'Brien out of office. He's turned the once proud working man's union into a bootlicking maga minion. You're either for democracy or you're against it. Fire O'Brien.

Look up the word "dickless" in the dictionary and you'll find a portrait of Teamsters president Sean O'Brien.

Dissolve the slug.

Is it just me or does anyone else think @mcuban.bsky.social is starting to sound kinda "pragmagatic" lately?

"The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID"

I was 9 years old, transfixed by the magnitude of the achievement, and yearned for a career in science. Most of us were yet to learn, or care, that JFK was quietly flooding some place called "Vietnam" with "military advisors." Nine years later my generation was dying there by the tens of thousands.

History remembers with warranted disdain those who obsequiously bent the knee to tyrants.

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

“In theory, there would be aid available,” Adam Pryor said, as he steered his bulldozer through the once-fertile corn field. “But that’s not guaranteed” With a GOP-caused recession and subsequent economic collapse on the way, WNC's ruined farmers will *never* see the aid they need & deserve. #ncpol

Exiting NC Gov Cooper (D) & new Gov Stein (D) asked for $5 B in Hurricane Helene recovery funds for devastated W NC counties like Henderson. The goper-controlled legislature granted only $1 B Henderson went for trump by a 14 pt margin & state Sen Moffitt (R) by 18 pts. FAFO #ncpol wapo.st/4i6f3DF