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Imagining being such a tool that when an 88 year old man who has been sick for sometime dies after briefly meeting with you people still low key wonder if you killed him

submitted 3 hours ago • 25 comments

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears. Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.

submitted 2 days ago • 383 comments

I am tired of people acting like Vice-President Kamala Harris didn’t have targeted, pragmatic policies to address just about every damn thing people seem to be mad about.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

1/ "Nature’s analysis shows that, looking at just the projects terminated so far, 17% are related to COVID-19, and 29% to HIV/AIDS (see ‘Terminated grant tally’)": www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Without saying your age, who was your first animated crush? Shut up.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 3 days ago • 317 comments

At this point #NEH watch seems pretty futile, but it feels important to document how the humanities are being weaponized in service of fascism even as they’re being dismantled. So here’s a brand new grant program, launched Monday: “Celebrate America.” #DigitalHumanities www.neh.gov/program/cele...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

💛🏺 I'm enjoying this two-hour takedown of Graham Hancock and friends today, featuring lots of Flint Dibble. Documenting material culture properly is hard, tedious work and so important to help us historians tell truer stories. I don't want to spend all day digging, so I treasure you who do!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Timeline cleanse! Ancient baby bottle: A marvellous baby feeding vessel in the shape of a mouse. Campanian, 4th century BC. On display at Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology AncientBluesky

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

1. SARS-CoV (-1/-2) and prion disease (PrD): Will do a thread once I scrape my chin off the floor. Dr. Laura Manuelidis starts high and goes hard sentence for sentence. The current mainstream view essentially defies basic laws of science. Prion science is wild and contentious doi.org/10.1080/2150...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection Available online 27 March 2025 In Press, Corrected Proof What’s this? COVID-19, Epstein-Barr virus reactivation and autoimmunity: Casual or causal liaisons? #EBV www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Yeah, this is maybe the only story I've seen that actually describes the work of the people trying to dismantle higher ed.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 1665 comments

Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation? Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Making some progress on my High Road quilt. I'm thinking of surrounding this with resistance words. Or I may just quilt it and bring it to the next protest. Decisions, decisions.... #quiltsky

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

According to organizers, Meta said the ad didn’t align with their policies regarding “social issues, elections and politics.”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

I feel really badly about throwing out old tennis shoes.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Our favorite sheriff, Bruce Zuchowski of Portage County, has already signed up his deputies to become ICE agents. Keep this in mind if you are not a white Christian and plan to visit Ohio.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” 🗃️

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Over 280 alumni of University of Michigan Law School (with signatories still incoming), in class years ranging from the 1970s to the 2020s, from all over the US and all corners of the legal profession, stand up for the values and legacy of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Michigan. Our letter:

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

This thread is required reading if you wanna know how we got to this point

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submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform: "Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is this the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Ordo Mediare's scriptorium moment

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 11 days ago • 1523 comments

Y'all are going to be begging for DEI to come back. Because this is peak whiteness right now, and it's looking pretty damn inept.

submitted 12 days ago • 212 comments

When ai bros, grifters, and eugenicists push ai as an efficient solution, they are indicating the kind of care they think you deserve, not the kind of care they will continue to receive.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

submitted 12 days ago • 522 comments

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

submitted 12 days ago • 618 comments

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

submitted 12 days ago • 286 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 12 days ago • 152 comments

NEW: AG Pam Bondi just announced the creation of a “Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force” which she will personally lead.

submitted 12 days ago • 214 comments

Share one of your comfort COMEDY movies 🍿

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my god that’s exactly what all this “de-extinction” stuff is. It’s way sexier and more scifi to pretend like we can bring back mammoths (we can’t) than actual wildlife conservation, which is a lot of unsexy hard work but actually gets results.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

GOP court decision overturning Democratic victory in North Carolina Supreme Court race is 5 alarm fire for democracy. It’s January 6 without the insurrection. Make no mistake, if GOP succeeds in stealing election in NC, they’ll use that playbook everywhere www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Historians know: the false confidence & frequency with which Musk says “throughout history” signals the immediate historical mendacity that will follow. He hasn’t ever done the reading & makes up “facts” about Rome—which reached its pop. height around the 2ndC CE & didn’t “fall” from pop. decline.

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

Get all your vaccines including the measles vaccine and mask up

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

4am Bluesky was once about multigender thirst pics and now it's about the imminent global economic collapse and while I know that right now it really does have to be about the latter rather than the former let me tell you I liked it better when it was all about that first thing

submitted 14 days ago • 280 comments

You know what? Henceforth I am just gonna take Suetonius at his word about all of Caligula's antics. Because centuries from now, who will ever believe that the leader of the most powerful military country in the world tried to raise tariffs on... checks notes again... penguin colonies?!

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Do you remember the paediatric cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin (AHUO) in 2022? This new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection needs to be considered as a potential trigger of paediatric AHUO and testing for intrahepatic SARS-CoV-2 antigens should be considered gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments