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We need to dust off these songs that we were raised on for such a time as this. A Civil Rights Era classic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKE...

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

I know I’m too old to still be struck by this but I am just endlessly struck by the way white supremacy takes up Black and Brown aesthetics — his whole getup is so pathetically desperate, to be something he will never be

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

A small glimmer of hope…

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

Editor Commentary: Who does this to other people? To doctors, nurses, farmers, teachers, professors, scientists, veterans, working families, people with disabilities, children with special needs, poor people? What twisted, unnatural men.

Those data points are not all created equal. Every vote is not a mild, fungible "yes" or "no." The pro votes are trending down, which shows they're wavering. The "no" votes, on the other hand, might as well be forged in Vibranium by the hammer of Thor.

Oh wow, what a crazy random happenstance.

my beef with this article is that there's no discussion of why this is happening, and this is explicable from a basic-ish methodology perspective. the problem with testing long covid treatments is twofold. it's preferable to study treatment effects on the least granular control group possible. ⅙

you, a provincial rube: “this is like the fall of Rome!” me, an intellectual: “ah, this is our Sulla moment, these purges and proscriptions will be very unpleasant”

Republicans are screwing up data collection so we won't know how badly they've broke our country.

You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

And here it is, my Joker moment. I am insane now.

Nothing to see here, move along now. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This thread and the one QT’d ar the beginning of it are both 🔥