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illoe.bsky.social
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Please take a moment to read this open letter from members of U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Every day is an emotional rollercoaster working in research, but I will do whatever I can to keep the work going and the lights on ❤️ Hang in there.

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Tomorrow’s stock market is going to be brutal. And for most of us it’s too late to pull out. I wish the dipshits-in-chief had crashed the stock market before they gut-DOGED our federal workforce. Maybe then more people with power (read: mostly inherited money) might have stood up to the bullshit.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Sign ideas for tomorrow:

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

For those of you asking why Pete Hegseth has a Russian email address: It's so he can log into Signal.

submitted 16 days ago • 299 comments

I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

submitted 17 days ago • 225 comments

Chuck Schumer right now:

submitted 29 days ago • 260 comments

So, complicitous Democrats voted for the CR because they don’t want to hurt some Americans. Do they understand the harm that’s coming to all Americans by empowering a corrupt clown show that’s cobbling together a new “government” built entirely on malice and grift?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“We wanted to learn the truth about the concerns and the science behind vaccine safety. So we talked to two uneducated, elderly, white, millionaire conspiracy theorists in a Steak & Shake.”

submitted 31 days ago • 137 comments

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.

submitted 31 days ago • 369 comments

Letter to my D senators re the House budget: Our country is at a critical crossroads. Democrats have been supremely ineffective as an opposition party so far. The House budget has provisions that will hurt Americans and destroy whatever balance of power remains in the US. Appeasement is surrender

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment