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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1214 comments

Bravo! In this article the authors reveal how easy it is to buff up your Google Scholar citations and H-index without *any* real science. Such meta-research is very much needed. 🧪 #MedSky #ImmunoSky

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 3 days ago • 699 comments

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

submitted 3 days ago • 663 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1309 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 29 days ago • 1265 comments

Hi, I’m God. I had nothing to do with saving that guy’s life or making him president.

submitted 32 days ago • 1139 comments

Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. It’s just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. I’m a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

submitted 33 days ago • 3107 comments

We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”

submitted 51 days ago • 182 comments

Absolutely perfect ….. ✨🧡✨🩵✨🧡✨🩵✨

submitted 56 days ago • 551 comments

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

submitted 66 days ago • 1156 comments

Trump in October: “This will rapidly drive prices down [...] It'll also bring your grocery bill way down.” Trump now: "It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."

submitted 72 days ago • 484 comments

Mood.

submitted 71 days ago • 1165 comments

gotDAMN

submitted 76 days ago • 1008 comments

What I would pay to be able to turn of the commentary on any sporting event and just hear the players and coaches.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Asked by Sky News whether his fellow Reform MP previously being jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend, and then subsequently lying to voters about it, should be grounds for his expulsion from the party, Nigel Farage replies that "I've got a million followers on TikTok" and storms off

submitted 85 days ago • 140 comments

Aurora over Monument Valley, Arizona 🇺🇸

submitted 85 days ago • 304 comments

Your #existential PSA for the day, c/o #ViktorFrankl:

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