RFK should be the lowest by a noticeable amount. His impact on healthcare is something that is practically inescapable if you know what he's done. Everyone else besides Trump is a background player. Speaks to the weird way the media covers RFK.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

@danvergano.bsky.social and I broke down why this past year has been such a whirlwind for public health and why our health editors are so tired www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

I've just been informed the toddler is writing freestyle lines. And I'm biased, but kid has bars.

Can you imagine having this horrible person who just fired you at your mercy and having the strength of character to say anything other than "You need to fly home? Start flapping, lady."?

Two bird bros out birding: "Oof. That Parus major." "Oh yeah, you know it, dude. Definitely Great Tits."

All we had to do was not elect this shit stain in 2016 and a thousand problems would not exist today, not the least of which is a global threat to the planet's ecosystems as they presently exist.

This is a joke, right?

"France announced late last week that it would be awarding funds to 46 scientists as part of a high-profile initiative to recruit foreign researchers to the country with the promise of greater academic freedom. Almost all of them were previously at US institutions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"You have to be friends with me or I'll hurt you" is a load bearing wall in Republican ideology. You see it everywhere.

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

summer olympics is pop and winter olympics is metal

This is a great point. But then again, knowing literally anything about the politics or history of any nation in this hemisphere is not the long suit of anyone in the American punditry.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I think if they took a second and were honest with themselves, they'd realize they don't actually know that many lyrics to songs in English, nor are they bothered when they don't understand the words in English.

Five years ago I caught my dumbest ban

Yesterday I noticed the lab had switched the TV away from the Big Bear bald eagles, and I was like, "Oh did the Heme tech get tired of watching them?" And the Histo tech was like, "Oh, some predator snuck into the nest and ate the eggs. We can't watch them it's too much of a bummer." So. Yeah.

It's all just a loud, ambient buzz at this point, but at least it's worth mentioning for those interested in keeping track that Republicans don't like American music, or food, or literature, or films, or fashion, or sports, the land, the sea, and almost none of the people who actually live here.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

He knows he can't eat anywhere public without getting heckled. He knows he can't eat anywhere public, because it will be covered in piss, snot, or saliva. He knows the people in Italy fucking hate him. He's right and he should feel that way everywhere he goes.

They did this because they think this is funny. The whole thing is psychopathic.

#BREAKING A federal judge in Indiana has found that immigration authorities are unlawfully detaining the Chicago man acquitted of the alleged Greg Bovino murder plot. He must either be released or be given a bond hearing by Wednesday.

If I were to guess, I'd have said Mamdani is your classic "tiger" guy, but he listens to the constituents, hears their views, and adjusts. Now he's a "golden snake" guy. You love to see it.

I will say this forever: Trump is exactly the kind of atheist Christians fear in their nightmares. He's not a conscientious humanist. He's a cruel, self-centered hedonist who thinks Christians are stupid marks. He openly hates their religion. It's so funny that he's their guy.

the Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing

Tippi Hedren having her cigarette lit by a crow on the set of The Birds, 1963

"Someday, In The Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What It Is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands Of People Are Going To Be Shocked..." - The Chariot

lol. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8HXPY8S/

Making Jesus into a contemporary Republican who always shares exactly the Republican position on everything at any given moment, even when the position has changed, would be funny if it weren't so consequential.

"I'm one (1) 195 lb asshole with zero impulse control. Can I assault one (1) 120 lb child who has ten (10) 120 lb friends? Can someone good at threat assessment help me out with this?"

To me, the resolution here is that this is what the Illuminati would actually be. There is no way to build the evil mastermind, supremely competent, secret society that runs everything even if you have more money than God. You can only recruit other fools and degenerates and predators.

Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats

Fear the portents of the rodent.

when im president big tech will have to figure out how to trace these types of threats before i let them work on their fake girlfriend machines

My name is Garcia, and let me tell you that if you commit murder on behalf of white supremacy I judge you more, not less if your name is Gutierrez or Ochoa. You killed another person and your own soul, and they still won't ever let you in the club.

I wonder about these "true believers." I'll grant them their conviction, but here Bundy strikes me as just kind of slow about who his friends have been. Any genuinely principled libertarian has been a Dem voting Independent since the moment they met other libertarians.

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

So much about this movement clicked into place when I realized the parts of his personality that normal, sober, reasonable adults find off-putting are actually part of the appeal for his voters.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

ICE is camped out at a free clinic/food shelf on the Northside if you'd like to see how de-escalation and targeted enforcement is going.

Just so we're all perfectly clear, there is no shortage of lawyers who want to prosecute undesirables, but it is extremely embarrassing to get told they need to indict and prosecute cases that Day 1 law students know aren't crimes.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

Hard to explain the unique pain that accompanies coming to terms with the fact that I can't expect young adults to know any references to media that was anything lower than A tier more than 7 years ago.

I just don't think it's sustainable to live in a society where the government can steal and traffic your neighbors or family, and if you do ANYTHING AT ALL with your righteous anger, the government will execute you in the street and then lie about you.

A possible effect of Republicans knifing the entire American scientific enterprise is that in 200 hundred years everyone either won't write scientific research in English or will find it extremely annoying to have to write in English as a type of neo-Latin, a purely scholarly tongue

No. Absolutely not. These losers cannot take the term grindcore. I forbid it. In the name of Napalm Death I condemn this.

This is bullshit.

As part of HIPAA and document control policy we upgraded storage space and put all the lab's old patient records behind a giant metal wire door and cage. Now it looks like the documents are being held overnight for drunk and disorderly conduct.