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Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

submitted 5 hours ago • 237 comments

Another shoe drops.

submitted 4 hours ago • 93 comments

Excessive caffeine during the day; OTC sleep aids plus melatonin at night; barely-restrained hysteria; a certain ideation; rage-filled fantasies; trying to figure out how to GTFO.

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Is everyone else just kinda going through all of life now with a constant low-grade awareness that we’re between one and three years away from the start of the kinetic phase of our present constitutional crisis? And if so how are we coping with that?

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

me, reading DOJ’s Abrego Garcia motion to dismiss

submitted 23 hours ago • 42 comments

"Anyone who has ever played or seriously engaged with sports knows, however, that 'fairness- is often the first word out of the mouth of a loser." -Tom Ley defector.com/its-a-great-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Thus far, this webinar is doubling as a course on basic rare-books cataloging rules. There’s an hour left, and I sincerely hope to learn something I don’t know.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

In a DCRMR webinar, and am being reminded that Official RDA is pseudo-intellectual gibberish.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

So at 2 (nb. I work 6:30-3) on the Friday before a long weekend, my supervisor tells me that I’ll be discussing rare Portiguese law books with a visiting scholar from Brazil on Tuesday afternoon.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Hey while we're talking about who has what it takes to handle the 2 a.m. phone call defector.com/what-do-you-...

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“The whole backwards-looking Biden frenzy mostly seems like an excuse for the press to look away from the present day.” Scocca in peak form. defector.com/what-do-you-...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

submitted 6 days ago • 207 comments

If I’m doing a training for a new ILS and am asked to change a 245$c to “something unique,” I should NOT use “Heywood Jablome,” right? Sigh.

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You’re reborn as a cartoon character. Who are you?

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CDC platforms have stopped warning the public about disease spread. One of the CDC's main newsletters that alerts health professionals about outbreaks hasn't been sent since March. And most CDC social media accounts have gone over a month without posting their own new content.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

MY LATEST: Adriana Smith Died 3 Months Ago. Georgia Could Make Smith’s Family Pay to Use Her as a Human Incubator.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

To be catalogued in my law cart: 3 manuscripts and a volume with a flag reading “Multiple bound-withs” stuck in it. Boo.

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“With the increasing numbers of COVID‐19 cases globally, the number of leprosy cases with COVID‐19 is likely to increase.” (and the leprosy in this case was resistant to first line antibiotic treatment, causing the person have to be on steroids indefinitely, which is not fun.)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The year is 2025 and white women are still comparing shit that happens to Black women to the handmaid’s tale because they refuse to read another book or watch another television series. It’s exhausting. Using Black women’s bodies for breeding. Remind you of anything nonfictional? Maybe?

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

@cynthiagibas.bsky.social

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I was reading up on the history of diphtheria and ran across this interesting fact.

submitted 12 days ago • 311 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 13 days ago • 238 comments

The same thing happened to a woman named Marlise Munoz over a decade ago. We covered it at @rewirenewsgroup.com. From Lynn Paltrow, cofounder of Pregnancy Justice, and lawyer and ethicist Katherine Taylor: rewirenewsgroup.com/2014/01/09/m...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 14 days ago • 1591 comments

Word. Can we for ONCE not do the circular-firing-squad thing and focus our firing (metaphorical … or not) on the actual fucking enemy?

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Distracted by searching the Corpus iuris canonicis to see if any of JD’s recent actions are grounds for excommunication per canon law. I should probably get back to work.

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Hip deep in year books; repeatedly muttering “There was no Great Britain in the 1400s, dammit.”

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Dems: “We must protect this country…” Also Dems: “…by attacking ourselves!!!” Dems: “I mean, no?? Don’t do that!” Also Dems: “I’M BLEEDING FROM MY FACE NOW. IS THAT GOOD?”

submitted 14 days ago • 150 comments

NEW— I've confirmed DOGE has entered the Export-Import Bank (EXIM), an independent federal agency of the executive branch. EXIM is the US export credit agency and helps American companies secure favorable interest rates worldwide. Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park have emails set up and office space.

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments