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social/affective neuroscientist, herder of cats, lover of cheese, "wild-eyed Marxist", NASTY Canadian "The trouble with normal is it always get worse" B. Cockburn
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Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

NIH DOGE'd..... Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations 60 Minutes @cbsnews.com w/transcript www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

Hear me out…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Glad to see our president focusing on the kitchen-table issues that matter most to voters

is he gonna teach the warfighters how to draw a cat eye sharp enough to kill a man? www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

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👇 I really think a lot of this could have been avoided if we had compulsory international service for a year after high school - like army style, but “get the fuck out of the country Timmy and eat them apples for a while”

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

NEW: China is switching from American to Canadian oil. Chinese purchases of American oil are down **90%** year on year. Purchases of oil from Canada are up +700%. That equates to a $20 BILLION annual loss for the United States, at current oil prices. Tired of winning yet? 🇨🇳🤝🇨🇦

EGGS! www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

“.. The Canadian Association of University Teachers, which boasts a membership of 72,000 .. recommended in an advisory published Tuesday that “academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.” @politico.com #PariahState www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

We could save democracy, simply by passing law making it illegal for a man to vote if he can’t obtain an erection without a boner pill. You’re welcome.

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death theonion.com/man-who...

Young men skipping out on college don't have many or any opportunities to meet women in organic, non-online dating contexts, which is in part fueling their susceptibility to radicalization and stunting their emotional intelligence. darrellowens.substack.com/p/how-i-beat...

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

Seeing a lot of misunderstanding about the “expected beliefs” in the Rubio letter about Mr. Khalil. For clarity, the letter is citing a *restriction* in the law intended to *limit* the use of the foreign affairs grounds of exclusion and deportation against people for protected speech to rare cases.

Missing man not seen in a week, North Vancouver RCMP say

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

As someone who is nearing/dreams of retirement, this is just so incredibly infuriating.

Duh. Derp. wapo.st/4lh6xnJ

Some context on Cdn tariffs on dairy www.cbc.ca/player/play/...