mikethemadbiol.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

fetch me a melon baller, I tire of my vision

submitted 15 minutes ago • 2 comments

Links 2/22/25 Links for you. Science: Octopus Arms Think for Themselves – Scientists Reveal How They Work A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals 2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice,…

submitted 47 minutes ago • 0 comments

there are so many things happening right now to federal employees that are illegal under current employment laws

submitted 59 minutes ago • 8 comments

Trump take egg

submitted 54 minutes ago • 0 comments

Trump take egg

submitted 56 minutes ago • 0 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 2 hours ago • 51 comments

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

At the Long Beach Tesla Takedown, lots of folks out here (I’d estimate probably 40-50 so far) and lots of support from cars driving by. Come out and join!

submitted 2 hours ago • 36 comments

To recap, a person the DOJ was arguing wasn’t in a position of responsibility is now ordering federal employees to respond to file a weekly progress report or be terminated — www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 2 hours ago • 228 comments

This is 100% right and I also worry that Democrats in Congress and the Senate, in particular, have learned to counter-mobilize against primary challenges since 2018. But that may be the only thing that can light a fire under their butts.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 276 comments

This city is now organizationally very well prepared for this. It’s not going to go how he thinks it is.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

As it is the start of Boston’s unofficial fifth season of cold, wet weather, Hell is already there.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

<Runs to the Prudential, shines the Keytar Bear bat signal light into the sky>

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Following his Nazi salute, Steve Bannon engages in unalloyed antisemitism, calling progressive US Jews the "#1 enemy...inside the wire" for Israelis, "progressive Jewish billionaires funding all this stuff", disloyal to Israel & MAGA

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Mall cops sadly failed to beat our first wave into the store, but they're blocking the door anyway #teslatakedown

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 5 hours ago • 24 comments

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

submitted 3 hours ago • 69 comments

Democrats should all start making the jerk off motion when asked about anything Trump-related, just to see how it gets described. “Controversial gesture that suggests self-pleasuring”

submitted 3 hours ago • 77 comments

Seen today in Lower Manhattan...

submitted 4 hours ago • 90 comments

People yelling at Elon Musk at 33rd & M NW Georgetown. This is the way.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 4 hours ago • 267 comments

Featuring quotes from @jeremymberg.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and the research of @chelsamicro.bsky.social

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 338 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 7 hours ago • 132 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 6 hours ago • 25 comments

In case you live in a red state and feel like your voice doesn't matter--it does. Keep the pressure on.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

The pressure is getting to the moderate Dems. Keep the pressure on.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Response of Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts this week when a constituent demanded he stop voting with Republicans: www.masslive.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 32 comments