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Triplett-Behrakis Professor of Pharmacology, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Director, Glycoscience Center of Research Excellence. CTO, GenNext Technologies. Analytical and physical biochemist. Posting on BlueSky is not my job.
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BREAKING: US Politicians were buying tariff exempt companies before the news like $AAPL Apple. Take Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. She bought $AAPL, $AMZN, $DELL, $NKE, and others before the surprise announcement today, buyjng the companies as they fell. Unusual.

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One of the doctors RFK claimed was doing “heroic” work “curing” kids of measles . . . a) is treating kids with a steroid, which is making them sicker b) said the idea came from god in a dream c) boasted about treating kids *while he himself had the measles* www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Last weekend in Chicago, 1500 historians gathered for the Organization of American Historians' conference where leading scholars discussed little things like, oh, the fate of democracy. I guess if we add some horny Nazis next year maybe CNN will come out and listen to what we have to say?

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A 31-year old unvaccinated man has just died from measles in Chihuahua, Mexico. His infection is reported to be related to the Texas outbreak. Four unvaccinated people have died in this measles outbreak so far. The only thing that prevents measles is the MMR vaccine.

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BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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A good article explaining the senseless destuction of one of the US's most critical research institutions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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The 245-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences releases a statement rejecting assaults on scholarly and cultural institutions, the rule of law, & open inquiry--and calls on all Americans to "help fortify" democratic civic culture. www.amacad.org/news/board-s...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

The CDC has now rejected Milwaukee's request for help, citing Secy Kennedy's layoffs "I sincerely regret to inform you that due to the complete loss of our Lead Program, we will be unable to support you with this EpiAid request." tinalexander.github.io/notes/attach...

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Update! UMass-Amherst's faculty senate is now on board!! Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts: 1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country 2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts Read and spread widely!! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...

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It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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I love when they take this "ok let me 'splain it to you" tone when in fact it's blindingly obvious they have not spoken to or read anything from anybody who has any actual expertise on the topic.

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Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

Voltaire: “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." God, in 2025:

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Powering off your phone or laptop erases the key that unlocks its encryption, and so protects against unwanted searches, EFF’s Will Greenberg told @apnews.com. “This is why a border agent can’t simply turn a device on to use a tool like Cellebrite.”

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

About time someone took on Big Orphan

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YouGov just dropped a poll that includes intvs from yesterday/this am and just wow - Trump's job approval is 41%-54% (-13). Economist/YouGov yesterday was just 43%-51% (-8). - Indies 30%-61% (-31) - 18-29 30%-65%(-35) - Hisp 35%-61% (-26) Dude is melting down. (h/t @sjclermont.bsky.social)

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The only answer is vaccination. I mean, if you won't take vaccination why would you take anything we invent that will be more dangerous, less effective and less tested than vaccination?

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This FDA office enabled all of the first time generic drug approvals in the U.S. Their work helped substantially lower drug costs and increase competition during President Trump’s first term, including spearheading approval of the first generic EpiPen in 2018. This office has now been eliminated

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Me, in Sunday School as a frivolous child: "They worshiped a statue of a golden calf? How dumb do you have to be to worship a statue of a golden calf?" Me now, as a serious adult:

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I want to make this very clear: If September comes and RFKjr announces that he knows what causes autism, he'll be lying. Bookmark this. Tell your friends and family now, so if and when this happens they are prepared to be skeptical. He's lying.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

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