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I’m a scientist with a background in drug discovery, medicinal chemistry and an interest in botany, gardening and ecology. Based in Southern California. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Webb-3
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Raise your hand 🖐️ and Repost if you think Donald Trump is a total fraud and must be removed from office immediately! I want all of my 170K friends to follow YOU! 💙 LIKE ❤️ and REPOST 🔄 and you will get even MORE followers! 🚀 Who agrees? 🖐️

Looking for scientists and those who supports critical research to come out on Friday, March 7th. I'm going to be in Salem, #Oregon. Events are forming across the country and DC. Please help spread the word. 🧪🔬👩‍🔬🐝🌐 #StandupforScience

Why support for the living fossil, 🦖🧪, T. rump, is decreasing by the minute. substack.com/@robertreich...

🌱 Our Camellia japonica has started to bloom, the sasanqua camellias are wrapping up.

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

Pretty much and maybe that is the goal

Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.

Not every news outlet is going to be a willing Quisling to a criminal White House! No capitulation to a wannabe authoritarian government!

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

www.science.org/content/arti...

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

Indiscriminate mass layoffs by Elon Musk are ravaging key programs, depriving our people of nuclear safety inspectors, air traffic controllers and food safety inspectors. These cuts crush democracy and devastate the livelihood of tens of thousands of public servants.

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

Well, isn’t this just a bunch of lies? The White House moved to clarify Musk’s role within the DOGE after a court filing this morning stated that the tech billionaire is neither an employee nor an administrator of the commission and has “no actual or formal authority to make government decisions.”

a government full of sexual abusers taking the position that you can't say no

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You know that the pushback has started when large protests are being held in Boise, Idaho! This story is from yesterday and was sent by my sister who lives there (and who detests the Felon president)!

For #BlackHistoryMonth, read about modern-day Black chemists making history: C&EN's 2021 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Paula Hammond, celebrates Black chemists and chemical engineers. #BlackinChem cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Housing costs. Up. Food costs. Way up. Cancer research. Down. Californians are already feeling the impacts of the Trump Musk “billionaire-first” agenda.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison, Federalist No. 47

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

Every state should be doing this!

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"we can all agree this is no way to run a country." Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy www.npr.org/2025/02/15/n...

This is what every American deserves to know right f*cking NOW!

🧪 The American Chemical Society is the largest scientific professional organization and it has significant lobbying power. Please contact your professional societies and ask them to support scientists!

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Arrest him now for espionage