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Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

Please kill me.

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

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I wrote a new thing about Bobby Kennedy's crusade against vaccines in the context of H5N1. He trashed Moderna, and if there's a pandemic, he'll cash in on that decision. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/great-week...

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My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

No other developed nation in the world would tolerate the monstrosity that is the GOP's Murder-Suicide Pact with America. It's time to face the fact that virtually every other leading democracy on the planet serves their people better than we do here. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-big-b...

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 402 comments

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#wokepope

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Trump‘s EO on gain-of-function work underscores how differently this administration treats the risk of a dangerous virus in a lab vs. say on a dairy farm. “In this administration’s outlook, diseases come from labs, not nature, so they aren’t doing anything about it“, says @ggronvall.bsky.social 🧪

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FYI: I am hearing that it would be a very good idea to log into research.gov and download copies of things like award letters if you have active NSF grants. I also recommend grabbing PDFs/screenshots of public abstracts for NSF awards in case that database goes away.

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

shoutout to every credulous pundit who said that this piece was hysterical

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

BREAKING 📰 The ACLU-NJ and the Rutgers Immigrant Community Assistance Project (RICAP) have filed a suit on behalf of 6 Rutgers students impacted by ICE terminating their immigration records. We thank our RU lawyers from RICAP for taking part in this important suit. www.aclu-nj.org/en/press-rel...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

"Silenced Science Stories [is] a visual storytelling project dedicated to featuring the US scientists who have been laid off from government jobs or had their research grants halted by the Trump administration." 🧪⚛️🎢🪐🔭 #AcademicSky

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“ Irving Kristol famously said that neoconservatives were liberals who’d been “mugged by reality.” Maybe soon we’ll need a similar word for the right wingers who can’t stand to live in the world they helped build.” Michelle Goldberrg- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

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Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Block Trump's Campus Attacks www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

submitted 59 days ago • 49 comments

FFS

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

submitted 61 days ago • 2341 comments

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“Trump’s sane-washers have forfeited their credibility. There is no school of foreign policy realism, or trade mercantilism, that could explain Trump’s actions. If you want to forecast the world, study his psychology. While Trump is in charge, stay short on America.”

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 64 days ago • 1110 comments

Another child with measles in Texas has died, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed late last night.

submitted 65 days ago • 19 comments

"Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak. And no empire can survive the degeneration of its people."

submitted 66 days ago • 45 comments

State media.

submitted 66 days ago • 202 comments

Masterful.

submitted 67 days ago • 120 comments

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have you seen this counter, tracking how many people have likely died from tuberculosis since USAID funding was cut? www.bu.edu/articles/202...

submitted 74 days ago • 80 comments

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

submitted 75 days ago • 1680 comments

Carl Bergstrom: “anyone who has been part of this grand humanist tradition is someone who will not lie down and cower before these sad bullies. I don't know what happens to science in the US over the next 4 years, but I have no doubt as to where the arc of history bends. We aren't going anywhere.”

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Next up...

submitted 84 days ago • 13 comments

“The same dangerous mistakes. The same lack of candor.” This is a perfect summary of everything Zeynep Tufekci has ever written on this topic.

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

Well worth a read. Not because of the content - it's total horseshit - but because it's a prime example of what happens when you mix anti-science, conspiracism, arrogance, and a total lack of expertise. Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷‍♂️. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

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New report on AI and bio threats - just released nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2886...

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