The biggest time of growth in this country was when we taxed the wealthy

Is tank bottom the new bottom of the barrel?

So, is Trump admitting to ordering the J6 attack on the capitol?

Looking forward to the illustrated children’s book The President Falls Asleep. He falls asleep over here He falls asleep over there He falls asleep in a chair He falls asleep in the air

Formulas for Modern Living: Clicks > Truth

Given that any survivors on an international flight landing in one of the pastures around Wheezegeezer will be crawling out of flaming wreckage after the plane slams into a line of trees, I don’t blame them. I recommend somewhere with a runway long enough to accommodate a large jet.

A major teachers’ union is urging schools not to give students tech devices until at least the third grade, and to keep A.I. out of elementary schools. @nytimes.com Kids need to learn how to use what they have in their brains and think, and not rely on devices and A.I.

Follow the money. Follow the damn money.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

One of the things that has surprised me from wastewater surveillance is just how much cocaine Americans are still consuming. It's everywhere, and there is a lot of it. No real decrease with all of the increased border security either. Who knew?

Intact surveillance systems are important to prevent or at least reduce the size and impact of such outbreaks. 30/n

🧪 Filoviruses are among the most lethal viruses known to infect humans. Yet despite decades of research, major questions about their ecology, evolution, host range, and potential for wider geographic spread remain unresolved. ➡️A thread on Ebola, Marburg, and related filoviruses.

When the truth comes out about why Trump is repeatedly going for medical checkups, it will seem absolutely insane. Protip: This visit schedule, the bruises on his hands, the repeated cognitive tests, repeated MRIs are all consistent with Lecanemab, or Donanemab treatment.

Two things: Black and white photography is an art form, in and of itself. When you colorize a black and white film or photograph, you are not restoring it. You are simply imagining what colors would have been created on film if the photographer had used a color film. Imaginary color.

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

Today marks 4 years since Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot & killed by the IDF while reporting in the West Bank. Both the Trump & Biden admins have failed to get justice for her killing. [1/2]

A shrinking pie means more for all Americans. A falling tide lifts all boats. As the economy gets smaller, there will be more money to go around. Genius.

Statement from the International Hantavirus Society and members of the international hantavirus research and clinical community regarding the current Andes virus outbreak investigation zenodo.org/records/2... 1/2

The Arkansas-Oklahoma game time has been moved ahead by two hours to 4 p.m. Friday. www.wholehogsports.com/news/2026/ma...

One way I understand they operate is some of them and their wives get paid by people with interests before the court.

Turning on your handheld device in the US at twelve thirty four on the sixth of May and seeing 123456.

You don't have to like the Iranian regime but they're acting like a rational enemy pursuing rational goals and you can offer them rational stuff. Our side you have to offer nonsense like golden statues. Who is the insane one?

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Beltane. Full moon.

Speaking with a colleague tonight about the logistics of rebuilding science. Both of us agreed that 1) the amount of damage to science is currently under appreciated and 2) it will likely take a decade to fix the damage that has already been done. We have lots of work to do.

Time to uplift some other Senate candidates. Don’t sleep on Mississippi folks. Scott Colom is worth uplifting @scolom.bsky.social

We're in the Jim Crow 2.0 Era.

A novel solution for homelessness is up and running in an unexpected oasis hidden in the brushy woods of southern Pulaski County. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

We should make the whole country out of ballroom.

I used to wonder how the dark ages began. Like, how does human knowledge just disappear at scale? I get it now.

If variation is the key concept of biology, then for every one of us, there is probably at least one of them. It’s just science.

New video on Ukraine’s long range strike drones… youtu.be/X_UKnoWy0o4?...

A ray of diffuse morning sunshine streaming across the room, passing over a gray tabby sleeping in a pink bed, and lighting up the left end of a set of Dickens volumes.

I would really like to see a "declouding" movement where consumers demand any software that doesn't strictly need to be in the cloud, be downloadable to run locally on their own hardware. The way that things used to be.

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😍

Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows. The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80. The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.

No heparin for you! Serious shortage for at least two years. What could go wrong? #EMedsky @medsky.social

When people ask how we fight crime, the answer starts before it ever happens. Jobs. Education. Opportunity. That’s how you build safer communities and a stronger Mississippi.

The US war in Iran is a prime example that military power alone, without a feasible political plan that it supports and the ability to think strategically about consequences of using military power, does not solve or achieve anything desirable

This won't kill this technology, it just makes pharma a sector dominated by European, Chinese and Indian corporations

Too young for the MMR shot, babies become ‘sitting ducks’ in measles outbreaks

Technical question: how does bombing hospitals and schools prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon if they are on the verge of building the weapon? Are school kids and patients building the weapon?

A century of hair samples shows how sharply lead exposure fell after modern environmental rules took hold in the US. A PNAS study found that current lead concentrations in hair from Utah’s Wasatch Front are almost 100 times lower than before the EPA was established. buff.ly/odLXa0j #ShareGoodNewsToo

Speaking of Melania Trump and press conferences, this year marks ten years since her husband promised she’d hold a press conference to address questions about her immigration history. We’re still waiting: www.inquirer.com/philly/news/...

Can automatically draft someone for war but impossible to put someone on the voters list

Trump has made a rookie teacher mistake, making a threat without being willing to carry it out.