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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 37 days ago • 291 comments

The analysis he's talking about is from the Rand Corp., which is one of the most scrupulously nonpartisan research groups out there www.rand.org/pubs/working...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a goofy history nerd, so DOGE makes me think about the Doge of Venice who attempted a coup in 1355. His cronies were hanged, and he was not only beheaded but declared damnatio memoriae (damnation of memory), stricken from official history forever. It's a nice thought.

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 72 days ago • 58 comments

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. Gift link here: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 72 days ago • 13 comments

"Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked."

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

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submitted 76 days ago • 220 comments

I think about this all the time. What if we just encouraged everyone to be kind, gentle, and caring as well as strong, ambitious, and fierce? Why are the latter valued and the former denigrated, again and again?

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 78 days ago • 228 comments

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

submitted 80 days ago • 257 comments

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

submitted 80 days ago • 46 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 81 days ago • 56 comments

🚨 COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students 🚨 Not a cold. Not no big deal. Not just a threat to the “vulnerable.” This is brain damage.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that while the “He Gets Us” ads pretend to be “inclusive”/care about everyone, up until 2024, the group that ran them (The Servant Foundation) donated over $60 million to an anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-LGBT rights conservative legal advocacy group (Alliance Defending Freedom).

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 84 days ago • 132 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 85 days ago • 928 comments

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

submitted 85 days ago • 170 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 86 days ago • 167 comments

Writing is very hopeful because you'll be like: I don't know if people will like this book. I don't know if the industry will exist in 2 years. I'm not sure North America will be functional in 6 months And still finishing writing the book to go on sub anyway. Hope springs eternal! 🖤

submitted 87 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING: Major publishers, alongside the Authors Guide, bestselling authors, and others, have filed a lawsuit against Idaho's draconian book ban bill, claiming First and Fourteenth Amendment violations. bookriot.com/idaho-hb710-...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

LMAO happy Black history month everybody! "Once vandalized by the Proud Boys, a historic Black DC church now owns their name" www.wusa9.com/article/news...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

God, he's amazing. And good listening today.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Working on a novel that includes a US election while we are in the middle of a coup is surreal. I mean, it’s a fantasy novel, but it wasn’t supposed to be an “imagine if we had a functional government” kind of fantasy.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

submitted 89 days ago • 36 comments

Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont Washington You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)

submitted 90 days ago • 18 comments

I wrote about it. www.laura-bassett.com/p/yea-this-i...

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments

Bruce MacKinnon, the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, drew this last November. No newspaper would print it. It now deserves an outing.

submitted 90 days ago • 25 comments

On political stress: sometimes you have to wait. Look up techniques for dealing with severe anxiety and PTSD, and use them. They transfer well. Learn to be efficient with your energy and relax your mind. Keep aware of things, but do quick skims. Fascists want you scared, tired, obsessed.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

I don't know what time frame the aliens are using but if they could get here sooner, that'd be good

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

submitted 91 days ago • 210 comments

The problem is that the majority of mainstream media has been outright lying to ppl about Covid for yrs, telling them that it's totally harmless to be endlessly reinfected with dangerous/deadly pathogens, and MSM continues to push the "immunity debt" conspiracy: www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-immun...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected. (Read more: The Verge)

submitted 93 days ago • 75 comments

"Dr. Frankenstein is the real monster." Okay, but have you considered that he's absurdly hot?

submitted 93 days ago • 7 comments

A brief stab at alt text: A photo of Shaun Tan's wordless graphic novel The Arrival. On the cover, which resembles a 19th century photo album is an inset sepia illustration of a man in a hat & suit bent down to address a comical blobby white creature with an erect tail, stubby legs, & a wide mouth.

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

Regular reminder about how ableist it is to make spaces inaccessible for Covid informed & disabled folks & then chastise them for not being able to go to those spaces

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment