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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

So fascinated by the human impulse to be like 'wow, this food sanitation practice really improved the quality and safety of food, what an amazing development, we should definitely stop doing it.'

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

What’s most infuriating about the lack of Democratic Party resistance, besides how many people are left to the nonexistent mercy of authoritarianism, is how blatant this administration is They’re serving the wealthy to the detriment of everyone else. The oligarchs are in every picture. Omnipresent.

'Dinosaurs Eating a CEO' (2013) John Brosio

YUP. That's why I suspect a lot of the posts are fake, but it's still important to reply to them (if you're a reply-on-Reddit type) as if they're real. Not for the troll's gratification, but for the theoretical browser we might recognize themselves in it.

We’re getting a horrific glimpse at the possible future. Widespread, cataclysmic climate change tragedies made worse by austerity and blamed on minorities by the Right, who will use their power to enable the wealth class as they continue to profit It doesn’t have to be this way. We can change this.

Why are all Reddit relationship posts like "My (F20) boyfriend (M49) backed over my Pomeranian when I served him hard-scrambled eggs when he specifically requested medium, then shot my mom. How can I save this relationship?"

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People shocked by Facebook's apparent about face just reminds me how many people do not care about oppression if it doesn't impact them personally. Going to point out how often people tell me what I expect is too much who are now crying because it's now their turn www.propublica.org/article/face...

Zuckerberg and the other tech oligarchs aren’t bending the knee to Trump and Musk. All these “moderation programs” and “statements of principles” were just PR campaigns meant to hide their antidemocratic actions. They’re not scared, they’re overjoyed. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-they-...

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

The Biden administration, which has been intimately complicit in the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza for the last 15 months, has just determined that a genocide is being committed in Sudan. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-biden-...

A child was killed last night in an Israeli airstrike which targeted the home of the Weshah family in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.

Billionaires are now openly cannibalising society in the way leftists warned for decades they would if their power was not stripped from them. None of this is remotely surprising. A true dystopia lies ahead

Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee parts of Los Angeles as strong winds drove the rapid growth of wildfires around the western US city. 🔗: aje.io/sik0e8

Moderate Neoliberal leaders are dropping like flies, leaving authoritarians in charge and subordinate moderates to normalize their brutality and grift. This is the cycle and it’s only going to get worse until we demand actual representation through coalitions. Otherwise, it marches on.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the decadeslong leader of the French far-right, has died. He took part in horrid violence during France's war against Algerian independence; founded the National Front that became a staple in French politics; & was part of a humongous shock when he made 2002 presidential runoff.

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Amnesty International says Israel’s detention of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia is emblematic of the “genocidal intent” in Israel’s broader attempts to “annihilate” Gaza’s healthcare sector. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/e60abb

this is humiliating to such a degree that a well regulated forum would permanently exile a user for posting it. bro has become a digital Untouchable and even sharing a forum space with him makes you unclean

Tim Cook is donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, too www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243...

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If you are an archivist you should read this. It's so rare to see labor and expertise of archivists acknowledged let alone celebrated that I might have cried a little

Believe me, I look forward to no longer sharing these posts after Tuesday (=start of 2025). But until then, it comes with territory of having structured Bolts as a nonprofit. We knew it'd mean turning to our readers to ask them to support our work if they value it. Now it's your turn!

“hole in the ozone layer” levels of erasure. my mom was a project manager who busted her ass for years to make sure IBM was ready for Y2K and completely succeeded, only for it to get turned into a late night joke. funny how the stories of mass collective action to avoid disaster rarely get told

imagine having like a zillion billion dollars and not even being able to do a fake voice, has there ever been such a pronounced skill issue

Recently a friend gave me the most incredible gift I have ever received. Would you like to see it? OF COURSE. Here is the tube map... IN CROSS STITCH. It takes my breath away that anyone could create this, let alone create it for me. She's astonishing.

Unless we stop pricing everyone but upper middle class or more kids from 4 year college, I don't want to hear about "what you can afford " from billionaires. Rich people and corporations dodging taxes, defunding higher ed, and desire to keep college out of reach for poor, Black, or Brown people 1/

so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this

Palestinian Ministry of Health’s latest report reveals the violations committed by Israeli occupation forces against the media sector over the past 14 months during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. #Gaza

The world's richest man (from South Africa) and a Nazi propagandist from Malaysia spent their Christmas night complaining that the xenophobic base they helped manufacture to elect a nativist needs to understand that we still need to allow immigration for important groups like Nazi space scientists

Ahmed al-Zaharneh, a crew member at Gaza European Hospital, was found dead in his tent due to the "extreme cold," according to the health ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/7zkxmc

Judge Torres has weighed in on Jay-Z v. Tony Buzbee, and it's a win for Buzbee. She's allowing the plaintiff to proceed anonymously, at least for now, and she called out Alex Spiro's tactics. "The Court will not fast-track the judicial process merely because counsel demands it."

Breaking | A massacre against civilians committed by the Israeli occupation was reported when an airstrike targeted a residential building sheltering displaced Palestinians in in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, resulting in the slaughter of at least 13 Palestinians. #Gaza

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Megan Thee Stallion has filed for a civil restraining order against Tory Lanez. “Mr Peterson was sentenced to ten years in state prison, but continues his campaign of harassment from behind bars.” A hearing is scheduled for January 9.

wrote about the media frenzy following Daniel Penny's acquittal for murdering Jordan Neely, and the disparity in the NYPD's reaction to finding Luigi Mangione, vs the stabbing of 17-year-old Yeremi Colino—about a country making some lives more valuable than others. @teenvogue.bsky.social

shoutout to UnitedHealth CEO for being so out-of-touch that every message to staff results in another wave of angry leaks and tipsters for me