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Former scientist, former science reporter, retired. Hoping for a more scientifically literate and compassionate country and world. Nothing to it, but to do it. VOTE
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November 2024: Trump will save the economy March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture

submitted 11 hours ago • 305 comments

And apparently trying to get the DOJ to prosecute the judge who oversaw her trial.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 11 hours ago • 136 comments

This is a powerful and comprehensive description of what the NIH contributes to the US and the world. It was published in his local paper but should be published nationwide. I too was supported by the NIH for my training. If not for this support, I would not have sought a PhD nor become a professor.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon updated DOGE, claiming to have fixed the mistakes we all pointed out. But instead of correcting them, he just added more false claims. He even inflated his so-called “savings” total from $55 billion to $65 billion, when in reality, the actual increase is only from $2 billion to $2.3 billion.

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

submitted 1 day ago • 2145 comments

Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

submitted 2 days ago • 1108 comments

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 670 comments

That was the most shameful performance by any American president in a century. I want to fucking throw up.

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

Let it all come out. There will be a reckoning. Zelensky is a hero.

submitted 3 days ago • 270 comments

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

submitted 3 days ago • 688 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

submitted 3 days ago • 95 comments

these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

submitted 4 days ago • 233 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 1602 comments

Why do I feel like the Trump message to people who have been contributing to Social Security for 50 years is going to be, “Too bad.” But the message to dudes who went big on crypto in the last year will be, “The government is going to help you out.”

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

OK a real quickie...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

He's absolutely right. He's the only Dem telling it like it is

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

That everyone outside your own political base isn’t “real people” is a very succinct summation of populism’s core premise. It’s not about some nebulous notion of representing the masses, it’s about claiming the power to decide who counts as “the people” with rights and legitimacy.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys. We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

🚨If YOU live in 1 of these REPUBLICAN districts, these are the MOST vulnerable R's whose seats will be FLIPPED next year if they vote YES to cut Medicaid. Please CALL your representative the vote is TOMORROW & help SAVE this program. YOUR voice does matter and does make a DIFFERENCE. 202-224-3121.🚨

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”.

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

“They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people.“

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 9 days ago • 286 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 139 comments

Bingo. Say this. Every day. Every hour. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 10 days ago • 236 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 10 days ago • 2919 comments

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 11 days ago • 2005 comments

Replace "western" with "white" and "unvetted" with "non-white," and you'll understand exactly what he's saying here.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

“Substituting the opinions of licensed medical professionals and individuals with that of the legislators’ own beliefs and values impermissibly requires Montanans to identify themselves based on the political ideology of legislators,” the court ruling states

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

submitted 12 days ago • 110 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 18 days ago • 3238 comments

Dear Utah, your mask is slipping.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 19 days ago • 1150 comments

Jesus, Gen X, what the hell is wrong with us?

submitted 19 days ago • 338 comments

"Research, innovation and advancing knowledge is an uncompromising part of who we are as an institution, a culture and a nation" University of Utah leaders update campus community amid federal cuts in research funding www.ksl.com/article/5125...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The Constitution IS the compact between the states. Take it away and what do you have? (hint: no compact)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

submitted 20 days ago • 408 comments

This piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social is spot on.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 21 days ago • 121 comments

I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams andscape.com/features/gen...

submitted 22 days ago • 104 comments

He doesn't just assert that the January 6th rioters who assaulted Capitol police officers were victims, but that they were perhaps the *greatest victims* in all of American history.

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments

I can be pandered to and let myself love it, just a little, as a 🍬

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments