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Teacher of applied entomology. Rural Minnesota born and raised. Jew against Christian nationalism. You can pry my he/him from my cold, dead hands.
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wow so all of a sudden its “racist” and “sexist” to indiscriminately fire every woman and minority you can find simply bc you assume they are unqualified based on nothing more than their race and gender?

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Wisconsin farmers worried about: - USDA spending freeze (for farm equipment & upgrades) - Tariffs on Canadian potash - Deportation of farmworkers - Cuts to nutrition assistance making kids go hungry & taking away markets - Cuts to Medicaid taking health benefits away - Crumbling rural infrastructure

Nazis are back. Going after LGBTQ+ people just like they did in the past

I hope that everyone in the private sector who depends on federal grants to train their researchers and staff, pay for their services and products, or benefits in any other way from federal funding will come out to #standupforscience!

Hi! Thanks for all the follows. If you want to learn about my former lab, please check out this article from before i joined in 2023. With the cuts, 30% of us are gone and in my opinion, the program will face significant challenges. Our facility was one of a kind. www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

Find someone who loves you as much as the New York Times loves presenting Republican party operatives as average swing voters.

These people are unfit for leadership. It was true before and it’s even truer now

If you need help coming up with a 'hypotheses' you shouldn't be a scientist. Every scientist I know has 100 project ideas and lack time to get to them. No on is sitting around twiddling thumbs without an interesting question to ask. We are in the dumbest timeline.

HOLY SHIT: WSJ reports the corrupt robber baron Elon Musk is using his relationship with Trump to extort advertisers to give X more money, or else have their businesses fucked with

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

this is the kind of thing the judge should be removed and disbarred for

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

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With “zero” education, you won’t know what the right question to ask is, you won’t be able to tell if the answer is wrong, and even if the answer is right, you won’t know always what it means or how to apply it to a problem. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

Yesterday in Miami an Israel-supporter shot two people he thought were Palestinians. The victims weren’t Palestinians but Israeli tourists and after getting shot they posted “Death to Arabs” on Facebook from the hospital.

One political force that I've underestimated again & again is just how much collective fury is produced by asking people to be better.

bsky.app/profile/news... Inside Job saw it coming.

"Grandma, go set fire to a church and I'll give you some Trumpcoins," how could that scheme not work out #stochasticterror

Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

It's been a really long time since I've done embroidery, but I might have to find a template for this. For the coming public health apocalypse. 🧪🦠🧫🧬🩺💉

You can't become the richest man in the world without having a sociopathic disregard for others. A decent human being would not be able to make as much money as Musk, and even if they did, they'd be giving it away to the point where they wouldn't be the richest person on Earth anymore.

what would you do differently if you were actively trying to cause more plane crashes? www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpP... This video was released before the election and the Trump/Musk broligarchy is following the steps outlined in it to a T.

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

A phrase that keeps popping into my head is “we can’t scicomm our way out of this”

Cancer researchers are “the parasite class” according to the richest guy on Earth who slurps up government contracts and subsidies

this is what serving your country really means and it should be something we admire and these assholes are turning it into a dirty phrase and throwing away these people like they’re nothing so many dedicated public servants, gone for no reason

Republicans want women chained to the kitchen and Black people back in the fields. They are segregationist scum who have no place in a civilized society.