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“One of the things that was disrupted, @science.org reported yesterday, was an eight-country phase one trial for an #HIV #vaccine that was about to start... Well, the trials to prove a potential vaccine now will not be happening because of this [ #USAID ] freeze.”

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Once we get rid of all the scientists, we'll truly be able to make America great again.

submitted 127 days ago • 51 comments

The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

submitted 127 days ago • 55 comments

Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison "Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 128 days ago • 573 comments

JFK describes why he established USAID.

submitted 128 days ago • 54 comments

Don’t worry, the reality tv show star Secretary of Hotubsexportation is handing the FAA’s aviation systems over to the exploding penis rocket/car imploding ketamine king and his merry band of unripened incels. This is fine. Everything is fine.

submitted 128 days ago • 313 comments

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

submitted 130 days ago • 151 comments

Halting US aid across the globe leaves a massive power vacuum. Who would be happy to fill that vacuum? China. The only people rejoicing right now are America’s competitors. We have to fight Musk’s illegal takeover of USAID.

submitted 130 days ago • 43 comments

This is the moment we’ve always been headed towards. If the President refuses to follow a court’s order we are in deep crisis. The GOP has courted this disaster.

submitted 131 days ago • 596 comments

If your NSF grant contains the word "female", it's flagged as a violation of the anti-DEI executive order. Note that "male" is not on this list.

submitted 131 days ago • 8 comments

Wait til the people crediting Trump’s trade war threat for getting Mexico to send 10000 troops to the border find out Biden actually did that in 2021. (@Claudiashein, well played 👀 ) apnews.com/article/guat...

submitted 131 days ago • 51 comments

The real story behind DC-collision jet pilot Jonathan Campos, a Brooklyn kid who soared to an American Dream of flight. His loved ones are pained by Trump's slurs about DEI in aviation A Puerto Rican pilot and the remarkable content of his character. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jona...

submitted 132 days ago • 28 comments

Book burning? If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."

submitted 133 days ago • 28 comments

A few years ago we started a foundation that sponsors shelter dogs with medical needs to make them more adoptable. We have done truly incredible things with your help and we hope to continue that here on Bluesky. Please go give @15outof10.org a follow! ❤️‍🩹

submitted 141 days ago • 39 comments

Trump pardoned the J6ers yesterday. Now the MAGA forums are calling for the arrest, torture, & execution of judges & prosecutors. 1st MAGAReport of the administration. If you find these useful, please tag journalists and legislators so I can reach a wider💛 https://buff.ly/42nX47k

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submitted 143 days ago • 1834 comments

i wrote about the past few days of my life in los angeles. please check it out if you are interested, and thanks for checking in: slate.com/business/202...

submitted 156 days ago • 13 comments

When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By denying care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

submitted 189 days ago • 1104 comments

No one knows the future - both what Trump will actually do, and what the effects will be - but it truly was the case that that Trump’s explicit campaign promises were to basically destroy the recovery.

submitted 201 days ago • 158 comments

Just a reminder: The Attorney General is not supposed to be the President's lawyer; they're the people's lawyer.

submitted 203 days ago • 953 comments

1/After Trump claimed he didn't know anything about Project 2025, I wrote several columns for my newsletter, Civil Discourse, documenting that wasn't true. Now that he's appointed Russ Vought to his cabinet, here's a little refresher b/c Project 2025 is coming joycevance.substack.com/p/more-lies-...

submitted 204 days ago • 216 comments

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

submitted 206 days ago • 1038 comments

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

submitted 207 days ago • 131 comments

It takes a minute to fully digest this. The Speaker wants to cover up a report into sex crimes against children and sex trafficking. The reason is that they want the assailant to be appointed as United States Attorney General.

submitted 211 days ago • 39 comments

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe

submitted 218 days ago • 376 comments

Just got a library card from my local branch, and highly recommend you do the same if you don't have one. You can watch movies, read ebooks, do research, and use equipment that you would have to pay for anywhere else. In case you need a reminder!

submitted 219 days ago • 158 comments

Latest from my Ringer colleagues: www.theringer.com/nba/2024/11/...

submitted 219 days ago • 7 comments

This piece is a fascinating read, even if it takes the administration’s line at face value a few too many times. Two things that jump out at me: 1. I did not realize how many Warren people Biden put directly into positions of real power. 2. Pete Buttigieg comes across as smart and serious

submitted 223 days ago • 3 comments

This is some more incredible work by @propublica.org focusing on the dire consequences of a Trump win. This is the information voters are craving, not the latest poll results. Be sure to read & share. This stuff is important. It's also really good journalism. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

submitted 224 days ago • 15 comments

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

submitted 224 days ago • 71 comments

NEW: Harrison Ford endorses Kamala Harris. This is impactful, in part because it comes from someone without a long track record of endorsing candidates. “I’ve been voting for 64 years. Never really wanted to talk about it very much.” (📽️Credit: CallToActivism via X)

submitted 224 days ago • 80 comments

EVERY STORY ABOUT TRUMP LYING ABOUT THE ELECTION SHOULD NOTE THAT HE WAS INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY FOR LYING ABOUT THE LAST ELECTION AND DIDN'T FACE JUSTICE BECAUSE HIS ALLIES ON THE SUPREME COURT REWROTE THE CONSTITUTION

submitted 226 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: Mississippi counties have changed 54 voting precincts since the March primaries, a @mississippifreepress.org investigation finds. But not all of them are in the state's system, which the polling place locator tool relies on. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center:

submitted 227 days ago • 4 comments

Former Disney star Bridgit Mendler talks scaling connectivity and resilience for space

submitted 229 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote angry today. Really fucking angry. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-coward...

submitted 232 days ago • 11 comments