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Why can't we run the government like a business? Because "move fast and break stuff" isn't a cool edgy business plan when the stuff being broken is tens of thousands of human lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

submitted 20 days ago • 86 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 21 days ago • 312 comments

With science funding in turmoil, If you are an educator like me, one thing we can do is educate our students about the impact of NIH and NSF funding, both on the science we teach and on the economy of our state & nation--this site from FASEB is a great resource 🧪 1/n www.faseb.org/science-poli...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Regulations, like labor laws, are written in blood. Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated. Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic. Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery. Blood.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

If I were an elected official I'd be having some very blunt conversations with constituents about what "regulations" are for. How much rat shit are they willing to accept in their packaged food to cut a line item from the budget?

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Just want to share that the World Health Organization is on Bluesky at @who.int, so you can follow them, sign up for their newsletters, etc. to make sure you're still getting information from them regardless of what the US govt does.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

There’s been a lot going on in NY that I had to talk about youtu.be/YHcsuYFlKDM?...

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

Stephen King: "In my novel, 'Christine', I envisioned what it would be like if there was a car that simply stopped at nothing to kill you" Elon Musk: "At long last, I have created the Torment Nexus from..."

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

tried to rise and grind but in reviewing the footage it appears i instead rose and groaned

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments