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I picked up this cultural artifact at the Central branch library the other day

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

Children are dying of measles.

California almond farmers and beekeepers have been shocked to find that up to 70% of the beehives used to pollinate orchards are dead. Experts say it’s the biggest loss of honeybees in 20 years and will be catastrophic for the season. Watch here to learn more @sfchronicle.com

Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.

the current head of the FBI has 8 separate appearances on this show

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

one thing this demonstrates is the extent to which racial, gender, and sexual discrimination has been an important cause and substance of worker organizing, rather than (as is too often claimed) some kind of HR-driven distraction

This shit is so stupid.

Why even post this?

First time in San Francisco. Loving these trees and this book store that is playing Angelo Badalamenti's music

This was just 233 days ago:

update on meritocracy

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

I cannot imagine using Twitter right now

thread worth your time

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

Rep. Grothman (R-WI): President Trump has done some very good things Crowd: Booooo

This is the government, putting our fellow Americans, in mortal danger.

possibly the greatest thread on this website

Me, today www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugs...

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From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

Just talked to a friend who works for the DoE and had 2 papers censored for violating an EO. One because it uses “toxicity” (about chemical leakage into drinking wells) & the other for “diversity” (as in “microbial diversity”). We are at Soviet-level stupidity censorship.

I'm an Article I member of Congress, do you think I have the power to just direct federal spending or something?

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The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

the thing about due process rights is that you can’t mistakenly fire anyone unless you’re violating their rights

The Democratic Party is a jobs program for Dem politicians, that's it.

A genuine problem with DSA is the lack of any record keeping. Events from five years ago are ancient history. There is no continuity at all.

Imagine being a public official and posting this

What has Ron "What Universities Owe Democracy" Daniels had to say about all of this?

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

I really liked the Brutalist. Very much recommend

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

youtu.be/ISYsINi8rLw?...